Thanks for sharing, Ms. Mary. I was having flashbacks to the days that I took my ancient history classes in college. So many names have common roots (like searching for "Yorktown" or "Charlestown" on US maps), not to mention the Latin-speakers tended to give their own spellings to foreign places, kind of like English names for all the places Englishmen have visited.
And so much of that area has had resident tribes further back than recorded history. Not to mention, all the foreign invaders: Gauls, Carthaginians, Epirotes(sp?), and North African Corsairs. Antium on the coast is the ancient name for Anzio, where my FIL served with Darby Rangers. So many wars in that peninsula.
Thanks for sharing, Ms. Mary. I was having flashbacks to the days that I took my ancient history classes in college. So many names have common roots (like searching for "Yorktown" or "Charlestown" on US maps), not to mention the Latin-speakers tended to give their own spellings to foreign places, kind of like English names for all the places Englishmen have visited.
And so much of that area has had resident tribes further back than recorded history. Not to mention, all the foreign invaders: Gauls, Carthaginians, Epirotes(sp?), and North African Corsairs. Antium on the coast is the ancient name for Anzio, where my FIL served with Darby Rangers. So many wars in that peninsula.