List of ancient peoples of Italy

This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity. Among them, the Romans succeeded in Romanizing the entire Italian peninsula following the Roman expansion in Italy, which provides the time-window in which the names of the remaining ancient Italian peoples first appear in documentation. Many names are exonyms assigned by the ancient writers of works in ancient Greek and Latin, while others are scholarly inventions.

Nearly all of these peoples and tribes spoke Indo-European languages: Italics, Celts, Ancient Greeks, and tribes likely occupying various intermediate positions between these language groups. On the other hand, some Italian peoples (such as the Rhaetians, Camuni, Etruscans) likely spoke non- or pre-Indo-European languages. In addition, peoples speaking languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, specifically the largely Semitic Phoenicians and Carthaginians, settled and colonized parts of western and southern Sardinia and western Sicily.

See also

Prehistoric Italy

Genetic history of Italy

List of ancient Italic peoples

List of Nuragic tribes

History of Italy

History of the Mediterranean region

Etruscan civilization

Pre-Nuragic Sardinia

Nuragic civilization

Latins (Italic tribe)

Prehistory of Corsica

Prehistory of Malta

History of Sardinia

History of Sicily

List of Celtic tribes

List of ancient Germanic peoples

List of ancient Greek tribes

List of ancient Iranian peoples

Italo-Celtic

Magna Graecia

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

Osco-Umbrian languages

Roman Kingdom

Founding of Rome

Aeneid

Old Latium