i'm very interested into the history of my city:Teramo, in the middle of italy about 170 km east of Rome..according to some ancient historical fonts, my city was founded by a preromanic people: tne "Praetutii" (at least that's how the romans called 'em just a little after the invasion)...by the way i don't know anything about them, anyone can help me? someone thinks they were related to the carthaginians, other to the picens (another preromanic ppl)..i'd love to know something about their style-life and their customs :)

Some places to start:
http://www.calascio.com/abruzzohist3.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetutii

http://www.torricellapeligna.com/Amici%20Article133%20english.html

21] Palmensi - The Palmensi, whose territory was named after a kind of vine called palme producing an exquisite wine, occupied (according to Plinius’ topography) the land south of the Tronto river bordering the Adriatic coast as far as the Elvino river, today called Vibrata. Therefore, the Palmensi were bordered by the Adriatic sea in the east, in the west by the Apennines, in the north by the Tronto river which divided them from the Piceni. On the left bank of the river Truentus, nowadays Tronto, the Palmensi had a town which Strabone describes under the name of Civitas Truentina and Plinius with the name of the river itself, Truentum.
The Helvinus river, which is surely present-day Vibrata or Ubrata, flowing from Garrufo as far as the sea, divided the territory of the Palmensi from the territory of the Praetutii, which was larger, bordering in the north the right bank of the Elvino and the Agrum Palmense and Agrum Ascolanum, and in the south the Vomano river; having its natural limits in the Adriatic in the east, and in the west the main Apennine range with the mountains of Pizzo di Sevo, Pizzo di Moscio, Montagna di Roseto and Valle Chiarina, where the Sabinum territory began. Nowadays all these territories correspond to the districts of Giulianova, Notaresco, Teramo, Montorio, Campli and Civitella del Tronto.

Some places to start:
http://www.calascio.com/abruzzohist3.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetutii

http://www.torricellapeligna.com/Amici%20Article133%20english.html

21] Palmensi - The Palmensi, whose territory was named after a kind of vine called palme producing an exquisite wine, occupied (according to Plinius’ topography) the land south of the Tronto river bordering the Adriatic coast as far as the Elvino river, today called Vibrata. Therefore, the Palmensi were bordered by the Adriatic sea in the east, in the west by the Apennines, in the north by the Tronto river which divided them from the Piceni. On the left bank of the river Truentus, nowadays Tronto, the Palmensi had a town which Strabone describes under the name of Civitas Truentina and Plinius with the name of the river itself, Truentum.
The Helvinus river, which is surely present-day Vibrata or Ubrata, flowing from Garrufo as far as the sea, divided the territory of the Palmensi from the territory of the Praetutii, which was larger, bordering in the north the right bank of the Elvino and the Agrum Palmense and Agrum Ascolanum, and in the south the Vomano river; having its natural limits in the Adriatic in the east, and in the west the main Apennine range with the mountains of Pizzo di Sevo, Pizzo di Moscio, Montagna di Roseto and Valle Chiarina, where the Sabinum territory began. Nowadays all these territories correspond to the districts of Giulianova, Notaresco, Teramo, Montorio, Campli and Civitella del Tronto.

thanks for your reply :)
however i've read the historical book by Plinius but the history is written by the winners and plinius was born long time after the roman invasion of this area :) some historical fonts have said the praetutii came from carthago, but i absolutely don't agree with them coz the carthaginians usually founded some villages on the coastlines to improve their business and trades, and teramo had never been on the coastline in the past..for example ancona, about 130 km north of teramo, was founded by them and that city has got a very important harbour...
other fonts have said that teramo has got a picen background..the picen area was really close to this one so who knows? but u gotta know there are some old walls built up during the roman empire where the ancient inhabitans of my city wrote down lots of bad words related to the picens, so maybe the praetutii weren't a picen population..

however sorry for my bad english, please :D

Check out www.wikipedia.com (http://www.wikipedia.com) and type in Teramo,Italy and do a search. You can find it in english and italian.

Check out www.wikipedia.com (http://www.wikipedia.com) and type in Teramo,Italy and do a search. You can find it in english and italian.

oh i often use wikipedia to search something but it's not good enough for that research :(