. A history of Rome . the Western or Tyrrhenian Sea; Umbria and Picenum, lookingout over the Eastern or Adriatic Sea; and Samnium and the coun-try of the Sabines, occupying the rough mountain districts of theApennines. Southern Italy comprised the ancient districts of Apulia, Lucania,Calabria, and Bruttium. Calabria1 formed the heel, and Bruttium 1 During the Middle Ages this name was transferred to the toe of the peninsula, andthis forms the Calabria of to-day. I ITALY AND ITS EARLY INHABITANTS [§2 the toe, of the bootlike peninsula. The coast region of SouthernItaly, as we have already learn
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. A history of Rome . the Western or Tyrrhenian Sea; Umbria and Picenum, lookingout over the Eastern or Adriatic Sea; and Samnium and the coun-try of the Sabines, occupying the rough mountain districts of theApennines. Southern Italy comprised the ancient districts of Apulia, Lucania, Calabria, and Bruttium. Calabria1 formed the heel, and Bruttium 1 During the Middle Ages this name was transferred to the toe of the peninsula, andthis forms the Calabria of to-day. I ITALY AND ITS EARLY INHABITANTS [§2 the toe, of the bootlike peninsula. The coast region of SouthernItaly, as we have already learned, was called Magna Graecia, or Great Greece, on account of the number and importance of theGreek cities that during the period of Hellenic supremacy wereestablished on these shores. The large island of Sicily, lying just off the mainland on thesouth, may be regarded simply as a detached fragment of Italy, sointimately has its history been connected with that of the peninsula. S^lg - -l^S the Mountainsystem of italy. 1[0 Longitude 1|2 East from Vi Greenwich ^§gB, EggyiuM 2. Mountains, Rivers, and Harbors. Italy, like the other twopeninsulas of Southern Europe, — Greece and Spain, — has a highmountain barrier, the Alps, along its northern frontier. Correspond-ing to the Pindus range in Greece, the Apennines run as a great cen-tral ridge through the peninsula. Eastward of the ancient Latiumthey spread out into broad uplands, which in early times nourisheda race of hardy mountaineers, who incessantly harried the territoriesof the more civilized lowlanders of Latium and Campania. Thusthe physical conformation of this part of the peninsula shaped large