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173-5 186-7ġ It has long been recognized that colonies founded by the Romans, especially those with Latin status, played an essential role in the Romanization of Italy under the Republic.

1 I would like to thank Tim Cornell (Manchester), Tesse Stek (Leiden), the audience at the OIKOS ‘wor (.).

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Concevoir un environnement où Romains et Italiens sont plus étroitement en contact nous permettrait assurément mieux d’expliquer les relations entre ces deux groupes. Le modèle traditionnel de séparation physique entre colons et Italiens n’explique manifestement pas le changement culturel et linguistique de l’Italie sous la République. Les opérations commerciales, les mariages, les fêtes religieuses ou des événements politiques constituaient alors autant d’occasions de rencontres, aspect non négligeable pour notre compréhension du processus de romanisation de l’Italie. C’est particulièrement vrai pour celles qui devinrent des centres importants de commerce. Il étudie ainsi les caractéristiques du statut légal des immigrants, en remarquant qu’ils n’appartenaient habituellement pas au groupe des colons « officiels » ils s’installaient dans le voisinage d’une colonie ou éventuellement dedans mais après sa fondation. L’auteur examine les multiples aspects que revêtirent les colonies latines et romaines dans le processus d’intégration des alliés italiens dans l’État romain. Whereas the traditional model, emphasizing spatial separation between colonists and Italians, is inadequate to explain cultural and linguistic change in Italy, a model which supposes more widespread contacts between Romans and Italians would be better suitable to explain in which contexts these two groups came into contact with each other.

This has important consequences for our image of the process of the ‘Romanization’ of Italy. trade, marriage, religious festivals, and political participation. Thus there were various possibilities for contact between colonists and Italians, e.g. This happened especially in colonies which developed into important commercial centres. It discusses the evidence for the legal status of Italian settlers in colonies and argues that Italian allies were not normally admitted as official settlers, but often lived in nearby colonies or moved into them after the foundation. At presstime, a new Maritime Terminal, designed by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid that will include shops and restaurants, was well on the way to completion, proof that Salerno is moving with the times.This article aims to examine the evidence for the various roles that Latin and Roman colonies played in the integration of Italian allies into the Roman state. Today it is a lively, gritty yet enlightened city with an important port, a world away from its troubled neighbor Naples. 'Modern' Salerno enjoyed a brief flash of glory in 1944 when, after Allied troops landed just to the south and forced the Germans to withdraw, the city became the seat of the Italian government for 4 months. The principality was subsequently ruled by Normans, Swabians, Angevins, and, finally, the Bourbons, but its political and cultural importance declined when Naples became the capital of the new kingdom and Salerno sank back into the quiet life of a smallish provincial town. Salerno became an independent principality under the Longobards in the 9th century and its growth continued in medieval and Renaissance times, when it was established as an important cultural center thanks to its renowned medical schools. and became the Roman colony of Salernum in 194 B.C. An Etruscan settlement founded around the 6th century B.C., it was absorbed into Magna Grecia, the conglomerate of Greek colonies in southern Italy, during the 5th century B.C. The most important port of Campania after Naples, Salerno became the first capital of the Southern Kingdom.

It's made all the more enjoyable by the lack of crowds. With 150,000 inhabitants, Salerno is a lively, industrial, modern town situated at the eastern edge of the Amalfi Coast, with an atmospheric medieval center and what is arguably the most beautiful lungomare (seafront promenade) on this coast.

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