Corfinium

Corfinium (or Italica starting from the social War) is an archeological site of a city of the ancient Rome, located in Italy, close to Corfinio in the province of the Aquila. It is proximity of the river Aterno and with 345 meters above the sea level.

The main roads to reach it were the Via Valeria , kind of prolongation of the Via Tiburtina and it connected Rome and Pescara.

History

Capital of the Péligniens, Corfinium was, before Rome, the first town of Italy, and remained capital of Péligniens until the constraint of those with Rome which took place at the beginning of the III E; the Lex Iulia made a Roman Municipe of it.

Thereafter the Lex Licinia Mucia of civibus redigendis of -95 restricted the rights instituted by the preceding law, which caused an insurrection. Livius Drusus abrogea this new law and restores the Roman Citoyenneté but he was finally assassinated and Quintus Varus, Ibère but Roman citizen, reconsidered this decision.

A new insurrection of Corfinium and nearby people lead at an assembly where took part of many people Italiques. This episode is known under the name of social Guerre and even if this war were lost by the italics, it enabled them to receive in a final way the Roman citizenship.

With the fall of the Roman Empire the history of Corfinium followed that of good of other Italian cities: initially plunderings on behalf of the barbarians, then various vicissitudes of feudalities of the Middle Ages…

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