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...tion of [[Latins]], from whom the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] originated. In [[Roman mythology]], the shadowy king [[Latinus]] allegedly gave his name to the re ...oenicia]]ns strongly influenced the Etrurian culture, which acquired its [[alphabet]] (later inherited by Rome), and some cultural traits, from those two sourc

...the ''[[Iliad]]'' and may be the earliest extant precursor to the [[Latin alphabet]]. ...] then by the [[Ostrogoths]], being ultimately absorbed into the [[Eastern Roman Empire]]. The Byzantines gave the island over to Naples in [[588]] and by

[[Image:Forum Romanum panorama 2.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The [[Roman Forum]] was the central area around which ancient Rome developed.]] ...o barbarian invasions in the [[5th century]], marking the [[decline of the Roman Empire]] and the beginning of the [[Middle Ages]].

...l code takes the form AA 999 AA. Here ‘A’ can be any letter of the [[Roman alphabet]] except I, O, Q, U and is treated as a [[radix|base]]-22 digit; ‘9’ ca

The [[Fiat]] was named after Ulysses, the Roman name for [[Odysseus]], the hero of [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]''. Ironically, ...g theme, [[Lancia]] named its variant with the, previously unused, [[Greek alphabet|Greek letter]] ''[[Zeta (letter)|Zeta]]''. With its big chrome grille, the

...]] had bases in Genoa, or in the nearby area, since an inscription with an alphabet similar to that used in [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] has been found. In the [[ancient Rome|Roman era]], Genoa was overshadowed by the powerful [[Marseille]] and ''Vada Saba

After the [[decline of the Roman Empire]], Europe entered a long period of changes arising from what is know ...called [[Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation]]. The eastern part of the Roman Empire became known in the west as the [[Byzantine Empire]] the 'Byzantines

...ɛne]}} by a Roman, {{IPA|[va ˈbene]}} by a Milanese; ''a casa'' "at home": Roman {{IPA|[a ˈkkasa]}}, Milanese {{IPA|[a ˈkaza]}}). ...Italian, and it is not part of the standard 21-letter contemporary Italian alphabet. Each of these foreign letters had an Italian equivalent spelling: ''gi'' f

...ters in the city while [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] uses the [[Latin alphabet]].