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After taking a break from this forum for some time, I've recently began research on a possible timeline. Here's my premise so far: the POD is that Rome is never founded, for whatever reason, and instead the Sabines become dominant in Italy.

So far, here's my idea:

In the seventh century BC, the Sabines begin expanding into Latium and are able to form some ground. Possibly due to contact with the Latins and/or the Etruscans, they form a league of mutual defense, similar to the Latin and Samnite Leagues of OTL.

Much of my inspiration is derived from amateur interest in the Italic languages and imaging what a Sabine or "southern" Umbrian language would have looked like, so there will be a lot of linguistic notation ITTL.

I'd like to open this up to everyone for discussion, suggestions and ideas. As I've said, this is still in the early phase, but any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
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