"Italia (the Latin and Italian name for the Italian Peninsula) was the homeland of the Romans and metropole of Rome´s empire in classical antiquity. According to ...
Roman mythology, Italy was the ancestral home promised by Jupiter to Aeneas of Troy and his descendants, whose descendants were the founders of Rome. Aside from the legendary accounts, Rome was an Italic city-state that changed its form of government from kingdom to republic and then grew within the context of a peninsula dominated by the Celts in the North, the Etruscans and Umbrians in the Centre, and the Messapians (Illyrian Colonies) and Greeks colonies in the south." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020)
