Old Latium

Old Latium (Latin: Latium Vetus) was, in ancient Roman times, the part of the Italian peninsula bounded on the North by the river Tiber, on the East by the central Apennine mountains and on the South by Monte Circeo. It corresponded to the central part of the modern eponymous regione (administrative district) of Lazio (Italy). It was the traditional territory of the Italic tribe known as the Latins, to which the inhabitants of the archaic city of Rome themselves belonged. It was called "old" to distinguish it from the expanded region, denoted Latium by later Romans, that included the region to the South of Old Latium, between Monte Circeo and the river Garigliano - the so-called Latium adiectum ("attached Latium").