Romanesque peoples

Ancient Rome (Roma) - originally a community in ancient Italy, then a slave-owning city-state (polis), from the name of Rome in Latin Roma and called all peoples, whose languages were derived from Latin, Romanesque peoples, Romanesque languages. Romans have subordinated in the beginning to itself all Apennines peninsula; subsequently a considerable part of Europe, coast of northern Africa, Asia Minor, Syria. Rome has arisen in area Lacium (Latium), on the left coast of the river Tiber. Constant settlements in Latium apparently have appeared only at the end of the 2nd millennium BC. They belonged to ancestors of an Italian tribe of Latin (from them also the name Latin). In 8-6 centuries B.C. the Latins intensified the process of decomposition of primitive communal relations, private property appeared, classes were born. Fortified settlements of the city appeared. At the end of the 7th century B.C. a union of 30 Latin cities was formed, headed by the city of Alboy-Longoi (this is the so-called Latin Union). Alba, Alba, the name of several cities in Italy; Alba Longa Alba Longa (can be translated from Latin as 'white, distant', apparently the mountain), the oldest city of Lazium, founded by Ascania Yul, son of Aeneas, at the foot of the Albanian mountain, the forerunner of Rome.