Second, and Third Samnite Wars (343–341 BC, 326–304 BC, and 298–290 BC) were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch...

them in a series of three wars. Despite an overwhelming victory at the Battle of the Caudine Forks (321 BC), the Samnites were subjugated in 290 BC....

the equipment and in the manner of a Samnite soldier Samnite Wars, wars between the Roman Republic and the Samnites Samnis (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

The military campaigns of the Samnite Wars were an important stage in Roman expansion in the Italian Peninsula. The Samnites were a group of hill-tribes...

named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who, during the Samnite Wars, began and completed the first section as a military road to the south...

relations with Rome. After the war, Rome asserted its hegemony over southern Italy. By 290 BC, at the end of the three Samnite Wars, Rome had established her...

century, famously sacking Rome circa 390 BC. Following the Samnite Wars and the Punic Wars, in which Gallic forces sometimes made common cause with Rome's...

appointed dictator twice and led the armies of the Republic in the First Samnite War. He occupied the curule chair twenty-one times throughout his career...

the Samnite Wars, the first Roman army entered the Campanian plain bringing with it the customs and traditions of Rome, and in the Roman Latin War from...

gruelling wars (the Samnite wars, 343–290 BC), during which they suffered many severe reverses, to subjugate the Samnites. Even after this, the Samnites remained...

organized by date. For internal civil wars, revolts and rebellions, see List of Roman civil wars and revolts. Wars with the Latins and the Sabines (for...

language, also spoken by the Samnites of Southern Italy. Although the language of the Samnites was called Oscan, the Samnites were never referred to as Osci...

– Samnite commander to Papius Pontius Pilate – the 5th Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea from AD 26–36. Pope Felix IV Samnites Samnite Wars Hirpinia...

was a tactical unit of the Roman Republican armies, adopted during the Samnite Wars (343–290 BC). It was also the name of the military insignia carried by...

The Samnites were an ancient Italic people who lived in modern south-central Italy, placing them between the Latins to the north and the Greek settlements...

This is a list of wars that began before 1000 AD. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity...

could be kept in being over winter during major wars). The standard levy was doubled during the Samnite Wars to four legions (two per consul), for a total...

expanding it. This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by the war. These numbers usually include...

time. During the 340s BC, the Samnites were engaged in a war with the Roman Republic in a dispute known as the Samnite Wars, with Rome claiming the rich...

patrician Fabii of ancient Rome, was five times consul and a hero of the Samnite Wars. He was brother to Marcus Fabius Ambustus (magister equitum 322 BC)....

Battle of Camerinum in 298 BC took place during the Third Samnite War. In the battle, the Samnites defeated a Roman legion under the command of the propraetor...

Samnium and defeat the Samnites in several engagements. The Samnites sue for peace, thus ending the Third Samnite War. The Samnites are recognised by the...

The Battle of Sentinum was the decisive battle of the Third Samnite War, fought in 295 BC near Sentinum (next to the modern town of Sassoferrato, in the...

The Caudini were a Samnite tribe that lived among the mountains ringing Campania and in the valleys of the Isclero and Volturnus rivers. Their capital...

the First Samnite War broke out between Rome and the Samnites over the control of Campania. According to Livy, this war originated in Samnite attacks on...

the invasion of the Samnites. In agreeing to take the Lucanians under their protection, the Romans commit to war against the Samnites. Fulvius invades central...

4th and 3rd centuries, the Samnite Wars, Latin War, and Pyrrhic War. Roman victory in the Punic Wars and Macedonian Wars established Rome as a super-regional...

A Samnite (Latin Samnis, plural Samnites) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a warrior from Samnium: a short sword (gladius)...

This family flourished from the earliest period to the time of the Samnite Wars. Several other important families, with the surnames Papus, Barbula,...

use among Italic peoples long before the Samnite Wars and argues that it was not obtained from the Samnites. In some parts of Italy the scutum had been...