The Venetulani number among the 53 peoples of
Latium Vetus
Old Latium ( la, Latium vetus or ') is a region of the Italian peninsula bounded to the north by the river Tiber, to the east by the central Apennine mountains, to the west by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by Monte Circeo. It was the ter ...
that
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ...
records as having perished without leaving a trace (''interiere sine vestigiis''). They are counted among the 30 Alban communities that carried out sacrificial activities on
Mons Albanus. The name derives from a Veneti settlement which may have been called Venetulum.
[Pliny NH III 3,69.]
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Old Latium
Old Latium ( la, Latium vetus or ') is a region of the Italian peninsula bounded to the north by the river Tiber, to the east by the central Apennine mountains, to the west by the Mediterranean Sea and to the south by Monte Circeo. It was the t ...
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Adriatic Veneti
The Veneti (also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.[Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ...](_blank)
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List of ancient peoples of Italy
This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises groupings existing before and during the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Many of the names are either scholarly inventions or exonyms assigned by the ancient writers of works in anc ...
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Further reading
* {{cite web , url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/438869 , title=Places: 438869 (Venetulani) , author=Purcell, N., R. Talbert, S. Gillies, T. Elliott, J. Becker , date=4 February 2022 , accessdate=June 26, 2015 , publisher=Pleiades
Ancient peoples of Italy