Editing Sabines (section)

{{Short description|Ancient Italic people}}
{{Redirect|Sabini|the London gangster|Charles Sabini|other uses|Sabine (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Amiternum.jpg|thumb|[[Amiternum]], an ancient city founded by the Sabines]]
[[File:Latium -5th Century map-en.svg|right|thumb|Map showing the location of the Sabines. The border with Latium to the south was the [[Aniene]] river; however, it is possible that Sabines extended to Lake [[Regillus]] slightly to the south of it near [[Gabii]].]]
{{History of Italy}}

The '''Sabines''' ({{IPAc-en|us|ˈ|s|eɪ|b|aɪ|n|z}}, {{respell|SAY|bynes}}, {{IPAc-en|uk|ˈ|s|æ|b|aɪ|n|z}}, {{respell|SAB|eyens}};<ref>{{Cite LPD|3}}</ref> {{langx|la|Sabini}}&thinsp;) were an [[Italic peoples|Italic people]] who lived in the central [[Apennine Mountains]] (see [[Sabina (region)|Sabina]]) of the ancient [[Italian Peninsula]], also inhabiting [[Latium]] north of the [[Aniene|Anio]] before the [[founding of Rome]].

The Sabines divided into two populations just after the founding of Rome, which is described by Roman legend. The division, however it came about, is not legendary. The population closer to Rome transplanted itself to the new city and united with the preexisting citizenry, beginning a new heritage that descended from the Sabines but was also [[Romanization (cultural)|Latinized]]. The second population remained a mountain tribal state, coming finally to war against Rome for its independence along with all the other Italic tribes. Afterwards, it became assimilated into the [[Roman Republic]].