Who were the first residents of the city of rome?
The inhabitants of Rome have always been, by definition, roman. However, the people of the villages of the 7 hills started out, probably, as hunter-gatherers, later replaced by a mysterious bronze-age culture of Germanic origins known as the Villanovoans, named after the italian town of Villanovo where their artifacts were first discovered. They later evolved into the Etruscan culture, which was actually more of a Northern Italian chain of city-states, and the Latins, a similar central-italian string of fortified towns. The Etruscans eventually conquered the Latins, but, by the birth of the Roman Republic, the incredible city that we know returned with avengence, conquering its way north along the italian penninsula untill they met the Gauls.
