The Picentes (Latin: Picentes; also known as Picentini or Piceni in modern scholarship) were an ancient Italic people who inhabited the central Adriatic coastal region of the Italian peninsula, corresponding broadly to modern Marche and northern Abruzzo.

The Picentes, or Picentini, were a group of Italics who, during the Iron Age, were located along the Adriatic coastline in central Italy. They were neighboured by the Etruscans to the north, the Umbri to the west, and the Vestini, Paeligni, and Marrucini to the south and south-west, while later on populations of Gauls also settled to their north.

2024年11月21日 · To explore the evolution of Iron Age Italic populations and the genetic impact of Romanization, we focus on the Picenes, one of the most fascinating pre-Roman civilizations, who flourished on the Middle Adriatic side of Central Italy between the 9 th and the 3 rd century BCE, until the Roman colonization.

Picenum was a region of ancient Italy. The name was assigned by the Romans, who conquered and incorporated it into the Roman Republic. Picenum became Regio V in the Augustan territorial organisation of Roman Italy. It is now in Marche and the northern part of Abruzzo.

2024年8月21日 · The Picentes, also known as Picentes or Piceni, were an ancient Italic people who lived along the central Adriatic coast of Italy, primarily in what is now the Marche and northern Abruzzo regions. They thrived from the early Iron Age until their conquest by the Roman Republic in the 3rd century BC.

The Picentes were an Italic tribe who inhabited the region between the Apennines and the Adriatic Sea south of Ancona in eastern Italy. The Picentes were Sabine colonists who followed a woodpecker (picus, their namesake) to Picenum. In 299 BC, they concluded a treaty with Rome and warned them of...

2024年7月30日 · The Picentes, primarily concentrated in Novilara in the north and Belmonte in the south, were a wealthy people with extensive trading links. Their territory, known as Picenum, was eventually annexed by Rome in 268 BCE.

2019年11月28日 · In Numana there is a state antiquarium that exhibits the lady grave and other finds. Every first Sunday of the month, admission is free, as in all state Italian museums. As soon as you enter the museum, you will begin a journey through time to the early history of this coastal region of Le Marche.

The Picentes or Piceni or Picentini were an ancient Italic people who lived from the 9th to the 3rd century BC in the area between the Foglia and Aterno rivers, bordered to the west by the Apennines and to the east by the Adriatic coast. Their territory, known as Picenum, therefore included all of today's Marche and the northern part of Abruzzo.

The Picentes appear to have stood aloof from the long protracted contests of the Romans with their Samnite neighbours; but their proximity to the Gauls caused the Romans to court their alliance; and a treaty concluded between the two nations in B.C. 299 seems to have been faithfully observed until after the Senones had ceased to be formidable.