It was occupied by the Latins
LATIUM (lat) or LAZIO (modern italian)
Rome was in Latium a(land of the Latins) and the Romans were Latins. Rome made an alliance with the other Latin city-states and then incorporated them after a rebellion of these Latin towns.
Rome controlled most of Latium (land of the Latins) before it became an empire. Latium was an areas in central Italy, south of the river Tiber. Originally Rome was one of the Latin city-states of Latium.
Rome was (and still is) in the Lazio region of central Italy, which in ancient times was called Latium (land of the Latins). In ancient times the area north of Rome (across the river Tiber)was Etruria, where the Etruscans lived (in the present day northern Lazio, Tuscany and eastern Umbria). The the east there were the Sabines. To the south there were the other Latin cities of Latium. To the west there is the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Back then it was 14 miles from Rome. Now it is 16 miles away.
Latin was spoken by the Latins who lived in Latium (land of the Latins) in central Italy, south of the river Tiber. Originally, Latium was not unified under one ruler. It was a collection of independent city-states. Rome was one of the Latin cities.
assuming water is missing from the questionthe answer is an islanda body of land with water surrounding it
The Roman civilisation was not built. It evolved. Much of this evolution was influenced by the Etruscans, Rome's neighbours to the north (Rome was on the River Tiber, which was the border betweeb Etruria, Land of the Etruscans, and Latium, Land of the Latins) and the Greeks of southern Italy.
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Herodotus was a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484--425 BC) when the territory of Rome was still limited the regional area of northern Latium (land of the Latins) where Rome was located in. Rome was not well known yet. Cicero described Herodotus as the father of historians.
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It is called a platue
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