Avrunki ( lat. Aurunci ) - the Italian people who lived in southern Italy at the turn of I millennium BC. e. The Avrunk language belonged to the Oscan subgroup of the Italian group . The territory of the Avrunks extended south of the Volsk lands, where the modern Roccamonfin region is located between the rivers Liri and Volturno .
Ancient Roman sources describe the Avrunks as a backward people who lived in fortified villages on hilltops. The Avrunks were allies of the Latin colony Pomesia , which was attacked by the Romans in the 6th century. BC e. Already in 314, the Avrunks were conquered by the Rutles, and their area was divided between the colonists of the Rutulian colonies. The Romans succeeded in conquering the Avrunks only as a result of the Samnite wars (313 BC).
The are associated with the names of the and the city of Sessa Avrunka .
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- Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911
- Aurunci in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , Vol. I, Abaecenum-Hytanis , Sir William Smith, 1854, (Walton & Maberly, London)