Sidiciner

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The Sidicins were a small central Italian tribe in antiquity . It became historically significant because its settlement area lay between that of the Samnites and Latium , which was built around the middle of the 5th century BC. Was ruled by Rome . As a result, this area became a bone of contention between the two powers, so that the Sidicins were jointly responsible for the outbreak of the First Samnite War .

The Sidicins settled between the rivers Liris and Volturno , their main town was Teanum Sidicinum , today's Teano , which is halfway between Capua and Monte Cassino . Both the Samnites, whose original home was in the mountains of the central Apennines , and the Romans had in the 4th century BC Expansion efforts, which concentrated on the rich Campania around Naples . Both powers had been a little north at the latest since the subjugation of the Aurunkians (these settled next to the Sidicins at the Liris estuary) by the Romans in 345 BC. Immediately adjacent. As a precaution one had 354 BC In an agreement the Liris recognized as the limit of the spheres of interest. The Sidicins lived on the east bank of the river, but when they settled in 345 BC. Allied with the Samnites in BC, Rome saw its interests endangered and responded with a counter alliance with Capua (343 BC). The First Samnite War broke out, which ended with the recognition of the two alliances. In the course of the further Samnite Wars, however, Rome succeeded in defeating its central Italian opponents and integrated them, and thus also the Sidicins, into its rulership. As a result, the Sidicines disappeared as an independent people and merged with the general population of the Roman Empire at the latest with the granting of Roman citizenship to all inhabitants of Italy .

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