Samnium

region

historical region in Southern Italy

Approximate centre: 41.4322, 14.6228 · Pleiades 433078

Who is recorded here

Felix IV birth

About the place

Samnium is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites. Their own endonyms were Safinim for the country and Safineis for the people. The language of these endonyms and of the population was the Oscan language.

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