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[[File:Iron Age Italy.svg|thumb|Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the [[Iron Age]], before the [[Roman conquest of Italy|Roman expansion and conquest of Italy]].]]
The '''Latins''' ([[Latin language|Latin]] and [[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Latini''), sometimes known as the '''Latials'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bauer |first=Susan Wise |title=The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome |publisher=[[W. W. Norton]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-393-05974-8 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=355 |author-link=Susan Wise Bauer}}</ref> or '''Latians''', were an [[Italic peoples|Italic tribe]] which included the early inhabitants of the city of [[Rome]] (see [[Roman people]]). From about 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small region known to the Romans as [[Old Latium]] (in Latin ''Latium vetus''), that is, the area between the river [[Tiber]] and the promontory of [[Mount Circeo]] {{convert|100|km|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of Rome. Following the Roman expansion, the Latins spread into the [[Latium adiectum]], inhabited by [[Osco-Umbrian languages|Osco-Umbrian]] peoples.
Their language, [[Latin]], belonged to the [[Italic languages|Italic branch]] of Indo-European. Speakers of Italic languages are assumed to have migrated into the [[Italian Peninsula]] during the late [[Bronze Age]] (1200–900 BC). The material culture of the Latins, known as the [[Latial culture]], was a distinctive subset of the [[proto-Villanovan culture]] that appeared in parts of the Italian peninsula in the first half of the 12th century BC. The Latins maintained close culturo-religious relations until they were definitively united politically under Rome in 338 BC, and for centuries beyond. These included common festivals and religious sanctuaries.
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