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The Hirpini (Latin: Hirpini) were an ancient Samnite tribe of Southern Italy. While generally regarded as having been Samnites, sometimes they are treated...

cultural region of Southern Italy. It was the inland territory of the ancient Hirpini tribe, and its extent matches approximately today's province of Avellino...

which it belonged at contact: Pliny the Elder expressly assigns it to the Hirpini, while Livy's wording is somewhat obscure and Ptolemy considers the town...

commentary to Aeneid, XI. 785 "Mount Soracte is located in the territory of the Hirpini next to Via Flaminia. It was on this mountain that a sacrifice to Dis Pater...

name from an ancient tribe, the Dauni, although it was strongly held by Hirpini instead. The mountains and hills are bounded northwards by the Fortore...

no connection to the sea. The ancient inhabitants of the area were the Hirpini, whose name stems from the Oscan term hirpus ("wolf"), an animal that is...

Sabines Samnitics Bruttii Frentani Lucani Samnites Pentri Caraceni Caudini Hirpini Others: Aequi Fidenates Hernici Picentes Vestini Sicels Venetics Ligures...

the Roman conquest, the ancient Abellinum was a centre of the Samnite Hirpini, located on the Civita hill some 4 kilometres (2 mi) outside the current...

the Sabines, they formed a confederation consisting of four tribes: the Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni, and Pentri. Ancient Greek historians considered the...

Trivicum is the ancient Hirpini and Samnium town nowadays called Trevico. The Roman poet Horace mentions Trivicum in his well-known account of a journey...

Italy, south-east of Rome north-east of Capua. Pentri Caraceni Caudini Hirpini Lucani - Centered on the south-western coast of Italy. Bruttii Oenotri...

the world of the ancient peoples of Italy. One legend claims that the Hirpini people were so-called because, when they set out to find their first colony...

Paeligni, the Vestini, the Marrucini, the Picentes, the Frentani, the Hirpini, the Iapyges, Pompeii, Venosa, Lucania and Samnium rebelled against Rome...

Daunian Mountains (1,152 m), west of the plain, were strongly held by the Hirpini, an Oscan-speaking Samnite tribe. Central Iapygia was composed of the Murge...

Sabines, Bruttii, Frentani, Lucani, Samnites, Pentri, Caraceni, Caudini, Hirpini, Aequi, Fidenates, Hernici, Picentes, Vestini, Morgeti, Sicels, Veneti);...

Montenerodomo), the Caudini (capital: Caudium, today Montesarchio) and the Hirpini (main cities: Beneventum, Abellinum, Aquilonia). They may have later been...

and Herculaneum by June. Sulla then moved into Samnium, subjugating the Hirpini and giving gentle terms, before taking Bovianum by September after a bitter...

tribes: the Osci, the Opici, the Aurunci, the Ausones, the Sidicini, the Hirpini, the Caudini, the Oenotrians, the Campanians (after whom the region is...

tribes which sprung from them, as the Marsi, Marrucini, Peligni, Picentes, Hirpini, and others. Their expansion was in a southward direction, according to...

roads (the Via Aemilia, the Via Aemilia Scauri, and the Via Aemilia in Hirpinis [it]), an administrative region of Italy, and the Basilica Aemilia at Rome...