Emilian people
 Flag of Emilia | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Emilia-Romagna,  Lombardy | |
| ~3,670,000 (Inhabitants of Emilia and bordering Emilian speaking areas inclusive of all ethnicities)[1] | |
| Languages | |
| Italian[2] • Emilian[3] | |
| Religion | |
| Mostly Christian (Roman Catholicism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Romagnol people, Lombards, Piedmontese people, Ligurians, Friulians, Venetians, Occitans, Italians, French people |
The Emilian people, or Emilians, are an ethnic group[citation needed] native to the historical region of Emilia.
Etymology[edit]
Emilians take their name from the Via Aemilia, a Roman road constructed by the consul Marcus Aemilius Lepidus in 187 BCE to connect Rimini with Piacenza which gave the name to Emilia region. The name was transferred to the district (which formed the eighth Augustan region of Italy) as early as the time of Martial, in popular usage. In the 2nd and 3rd centuries Aemilia was frequently named as a district under imperial judges (iuridici), generally in combination with Flaminia or Liguria and Tuscia. The district of Ravenna was, as a rule, from the 3rd to the 5th century, not treated as part of Aemilia, the chief town of the latter being Placentia (Piacenza). In the 4th century Aemilia and Liguria were joined to form a consular province; after that Aemilia stood alone, Ravenna being sometimes temporarily added to it.[4] Today the area of Ravenna is part of Romagna.
Geographical distribution[edit]
Emilians are not just native to the Emilian part of the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, Emilian historical region includes part of the Tuscan province of Massa-Carrara, the southern part of Lombard province of Mantua (Mantua itself included), the Transpadana Ferrarese in Veneto and sometimes the ex circondarios of Tortona (AL, Piedmont), Voghera (PV, Lombardy) and Casalmaggiore (CR, Lombardy) are included too.[citation needed]
Culture[edit]
Languages[edit]
The Emilian-Romagnol language, more specifically the Emilian dialects, is the native language of the Emilian people. It belongs to the Gallo-Italic group.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche Regioni italiane
- ↑ Italian is usually spoken either in the standard variety with an Emilian accent or more commonly in a regional variety.
- ↑ Dialect of the Emilian-Romagnol language
- ↑ Chisholm 1911, p. 338.
Bibliography[edit]
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 337-339.
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