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Latin league

The Latin League (c. 7th century BC - 338 BC) was a confederation of about 30 villages and tribes in the region of Latium

Latium

Lazio, called Latium in English language, is a Regions of Italy of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west....
near ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
organized for mutual defense. The term "Latin League" is one coined by modern historians with no precise Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
equivalent.

as originally created for protection against enemies from surrounding areas under the leadership of the city of Alba Longa

Alba Longa

Alba Longa was an ancient city of Latium in central Italian Peninsula southeast of Ancient Rome in the Alban Hills. Founder and head of the Latin League, it was destroyed by Rome around the middle of the 7th century BC....
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The Latin League (c. 7th century BC - 338 BC) was a confederation of about 30 villages and tribes in the region of Latium

Latium

Ancient Rome

Latin

Latin League creation

It was originally created for protection against enemies from surrounding areas under the leadership of the city of Alba Longa

Alba Longa

Etruscan

Etruscan may refer to:*the Etruscan civilization* the Etruscan language* the Etruscan alphabet...
kings tried to establish their rule over Aricia

Ariccia

Ariccia is a town and comune in the Province of Rome. It is in the Alban Hills of the Lazio region and could be considered an extension of Rome's southeastern suburbs....
but the league's policies prevented the Etruscans' invasion. An incomplete fragment of an inscription recorded by Cato the Elder

Cato the Elder

Marcus Porcius Cato was a Ancient Rome statesman, surnamed the Censor , the Wise , the Ancient , or the Elder , to distinguish him from Cato the Younger ....
tells us that at one time the league included Tusculum

Tusculum

Tusculum is the classical Roman name of a major ancient Alban Hills city, in the Latium region of Italy....
, Aricia

Ariccia

Ariccia is a town and comune in the Province of Rome. It is in the Alban Hills of the Lazio region and could be considered an extension of Rome's southeastern suburbs....
, Lanuvium

Lanuvium

Lanuvium is an ancient city of Latium, some 32 km southeast of Rome, a little southwest of the Via Appia.Lanuvium was situated on an isolated hill projecting south from the main mass of the Alban Hills, and commanding an extensive view over the low country between it and the sea....
, Lavinium

Lavinium

Lavinium was a Latin port city of Latium 30 km south of Rome, already fortified in the seventh century BCE and a flourishing in the sixth. and assimilated by Republican Rome....
, Cora

Cora

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, Tibur, Pometia and Ardea

Ardea

The name Ardea may refer to:*Ardea , a town in the Lazio, Italy*Ardea , a genus of herons*The Ardea, a condominium high-rise building in Portland, Oregon, USA...
. The early Roman Republic

Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
formed an alliance with the Latin League in 493 BC. According to Roman tradition, this treaty, the foedus Cassianum
Foedus Cassianum

According to Roman tradition, the Foedus Cassianum, or the Treaty of Cassius, was a treaty which formed an military alliance between the Roman Republic and the Latin League in 493 BC after the Battle of Lake Regillus....
, followed a Roman victory over the league in the Battle of Lake Regillus

Battle of Lake Regillus

The Battle of Lake Regillus was a legendary early Roman Republic victory, won over the Latin League led by the expelled Etruscan civilization former king of Rome....
. The treaty provided that both Rome and the Latin League would share loot from military conquests (which would later be one of the reasons for the Latin War

Latin War

The Latin War was a conflict between the Roman Republic and its neighbors the Latins peoples of ancient Italy. It ended in the dissolution of the Latin League, and incorporation of its territory into the Roman sphere of influence, with the Latins gaining partial rights and varying levels of citizenship....
341-338 BC), and provided that any military campaigns between the two be led by Roman generals. This alliance helped repel attacks from such peoples as the Aequi

Aequi

The Aequi were an ancient people of north-east Latium, in central Italy, whose name occurs constantly in Livy's first decade as hostile to Rome in the first three centuries of the city's existence....
and the Volsci

Volsci

The Volsci were an ancient Italic peoples, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. They then inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the south, the Hernici on the east, and stretching roughly from Norba and Cora in the north to Anzio in t...
- nomadic tribes of the Apennine Mountains

Apennine mountains

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming the backbone of the country....
- who were prevented from invading Latium by the blending of armies. It is still unclear if the Latins

Latins

Latins can refer to several groups of people. Its meaning has changed throughout time, and can still refer to different things even today....
had accepted Rome as one into the League, or if the treaty had been signed as between the Roman State and the Latin League.

Roman overtaking the League

The increasing power of Rome gradually led to its domination of the league. The renewal of the original treaty in 358 BC formally established Roman leadership and eventually triggered the outbreak of the Latin War

Latin War

The Latin War was a conflict between the Roman Republic and its neighbors the Latins peoples of ancient Italy. It ended in the dissolution of the Latin League, and incorporation of its territory into the Roman sphere of influence, with the Latins gaining partial rights and varying levels of citizenship....
(343 BC—338 BC). Following the Roman victory, the league was dissolved.

After 338 BC, the end of the Latin league, Rome renamed the cities municipiae and established coloniae inside them. This meant that the towns were now ruled by Rome (or the Roman republic) and that the people living there were considered Roman colonists.