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Umbri
The Umbri were an Italic tribe of ancient Italy.〔Pliny, ''Natural History '' Vol 3, chap. 19.〕 A region called Umbria still exists and is now occupied by Italian speakers. It is somewhat smaller than the ancient Umbria.
Most ancient Umbrian cities were settled in the 9th-4th centuries BC on easily defensible hilltops. Umbria was bordered by the Tiber and Nar rivers and included the Apennine slopes on the Adriatic. The ancient Umbrian language is a branch of a group called Oscan-Umbrian, which is related to the Latino-Faliscan languages (Buck, 1904).
==Etymology==
Also called ''Ombrii'' in some Roman sources. Many Roman writers thought the Umbri to be Celtic; wrote that they descended from an ancient Gaulish tribe. Plutarch wrote that the name might be a different way of writing the name of the Celtic tribe , which loosely means "King of the ." He also suggested that the , another Gaulish tribe, might be connected; their Celtic name ''Isombres'' could possibly mean "Lower Umbrians," or inhabitants of the country below Umbria.〔Prichard, Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind: In Two Volumes, Volume 2, p. 60〕
Pliny the Elder wrote concerning the folk-etymology of the name:
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