Paeligni people

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The Paeligni people were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, closely related to the Samnites and known from Roman-era historical and epigraphic sources.

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Paeligni people canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Italic people
tribe
alliedWith other Italic tribes
archaeologicalEvidence funerary monuments
inscriptions
sanctuaries
capitalOrMajorCenter Corfinium
closelyRelatedTo Samnites
continent Europe
country Roman Empire
Roman Republic
culturalSphere Oscan-speaking Italy
culture Italic culture
disappearance gradual Romanization
economy agriculture
pastoralism
ethnicallyRelatedTo Samnites
ethnicGroup Italic peoples
geographicalContext central Apennines
integratedInto Roman state
knownFrom Roman historical sources
epigraphic sources
languageFamily Italic languages
laterStatus Roman citizens
legacy toponym Valle Peligna
locatedIn central Italy
linked to: Central Italy
mainSettlementRegion Valle Peligna
mentionedBy Roman historians
militaryRole supplied troops to Roman armies
modernEquivalentTerritory Abruzzo region of Italy
linked to: Abruzzo
neighboringPeople Marrucini
Marsi
Samnites
Vestini
participatedIn Social War
partOf Italian Peninsula
politicalStatus Italian allies rebelling against Rome (Social War)
allies of Rome (early period)
region Abruzzo
religion ancient Italic religion
socialOrganization tribal society
spoke Oscan language
Paelignian dialect
timePeriod Roman Imperial period
Roman Republican period
linked to: Roman Republic

pre-Roman Italy
writingSystem Latin alphabet
Oscan alphabet

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Paelignian language spokenBy Paeligni people