Because of the climate and river valleys.
Rome is located on the western coast of the Italian peninsula.
Apennine Peninsula, Iberian Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula, Crimean Peninsula, Jultand Peninsula, Scandinavian Peninsula, Peninsula of Brittany. A few small ones: Kerch Peninsula, Attican Peninsula, Thracian Peninsula, Campanian Peninsula, Peloponnesian Peninsula.
The Iberian Peninsula, the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Apennine Peninsula, and the Balkan Peninsula are among the largest.
Western, about half way up the coast.
The Italian boot-shaped peninsula.
The Apennine Mountains
Western, about half way up the coast.
Denmark, Italy, and Greece occupy full peninsulas. Denmark occupies the Jutland Peninsula, Italy occupies the Apennine, or Italian, peninsula, and Greece occupies the Greek Peninsula.
The never was/is a Roman peninsula. Rome was/is in the Italian peninsula. Italy has lies in between the western basin and the eastern basin of the Mediterranean. This made it easier for the Romans to expand into both the western and the eastern Mediterranean and to control both basins of the Mediterranean.
The peninsula in which the Romans lived is called the Italian Peninsula. It is located in Southern Europe and is shaped like a boot, extending into the Mediterranean Sea. The city of Rome, which was the center of the Roman Empire, is situated in the western part of this peninsula.
Italy is a peninsula in the centre the Mediterranean Sea, between the western and eastern basins of this sea. Rome lies of the cost Thyrrenian Sea (the western coast), in central Italy.
The Homestead Act is what stimulated the western settlement.