The various Italian peoples are relatives
of the Trojans. Archeology shows the arrival from very early
dates of different peoples, due to the strategic situation of Italy in the
center of the Mediterranean. At the end of the second millennium, a wave
of tribes of Indo-European origin arrived and mixed with the native
communities. In the north settled the Celts, Venetians and Ligurians and
in the center and south Umbrian, Oscos, Sabines, Volscians, Ecuos, Latins and
Samnites. Shortly after they penetrated two towns of greater cultural and
economic development dedicated mainly to the crafts and to the commerce, the
Etruscans, coming from Asia Minor, and finally the Greeks.
