Latium
Historical region of Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Latio" redirects here. For the Nissan car model, see Nissan Latio. For the modern Italian administrative region, see Lazio.
For other uses, see Latium (disambiguation).
Latium (/ˈleɪʃiəm/ LAY-shee-əm, US also /-ʃəm/ -shəm;[1][2][3][4] Latin: [ˈɫati.ũː]) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.