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Latium (/ ˈ l eɪ ʃ i ə m / LAY-shee-əm, US also /-ʃ ə m /-shəm; Latin: [ˈɫati.ũː]) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
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Old Latium (Latin: Latium vetus or Latium antiquum) is a...
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The Circeo National Park seen from Sabaudia beach. Lazio comprises a land area of 17,242 km 2 (6,657 sq mi) and it has borders with Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo and Molise to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. The region is mainly hilly (56%) and mountainous (26%), with some plains (20% ...
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Latium, ancient area in west-central Italy, originally limited to the territory around the Alban Hills, but extending by about 500 bce south of the Tiber River as far as the promontory of Mount Circeo. It was bounded on the northwest by Etruria, on the southeast by Campania, on the east by Samnium,
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Old Latium ( Latin: Latium vetus or Latium antiquum) is a region of the Apennine Peninsula bounded to the north by the Tiber River, to the east by the central Apennine Mountains, to the west by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by Monte Circeo.
Overview. Latium. Quick Reference. Ancient sources make a useful distinction between Old Latium (Latium Vetus), the land of the ancient Latins, bounded to the NW by the rivers Tiber and Anio and to the east by the Apennines and Lepinus mons, and Greater Latium (Latium Adiectum), which extended SE as far as the borders of Campania.
LAVINIUM (Pratica di Mare) Latium, Italy. A city 28 km S of Rome. It was founded by Aeneas, fugitive from Troy, and named for his wife Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, king of the Aborigeni. So goes the legend in the liberal poetic version of Virgil, in Livy ( 11.4ff ), Dionysius Halicarnassensis (159.1ff), Dio Cassius (1.
