{"slug": "picenum", "label": "Picenum", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picenum", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q510990", "qid": "Q510990", "description": "region of Augustan Italy", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-283, 538], "span_label": ["284 BCE", "538 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "campania", "label": "Campania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "samnium", "label": "Samnium", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "etruria", "label": "Etruria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rimini", "label": "Rimini", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "augustus", "label": "Augustus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "umbria", "label": "Umbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adriatic", "label": "Adriatic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -283, "year_label": "284 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Gallic tribe called the Senones, who have settled on the Adriatic coast north of Picenum, attack Arretium in Etruria. While attempting to relieve this allied city, the Romans under the command of Lucius Caecilius Metellus Denter suffer a costly defeat in the Battle of Arretium. Aroused by this disaster, a Roman army under Manius Curius Dentatus invades the Senones' territory, defeating them and driving them out of the Italian peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480303#Roman_Republic", "title": "284 BC", "revid": 1370480303, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -82, "year_label": "83 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gnaeus Pompeius, age 22, raises, on his own initiative, a private army of three legions from his father's veterans and clientelae in Picenum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369868116#Roman_Republic", "title": "83 BC", "revid": 1369868116, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -41, "year_label": "42 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Octavian returns to Rome and arranges for ± 40,000 veterans' settlements in Campania, Etruria, Picenum, Samnium, Umbria, and in northern Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352172627#Roman_Republic", "title": "42 BC", "revid": 1352172627, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 413, "year_label": "413 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8 – Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366415001#Roman_Empire", "title": "413", "revid": 1366415001, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 537, "year_label": "537 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December", "text": "December – Belisarius sends John \"the Sanguinary\" with a force of 2,000 men towards Picenum, to plunder the east coast of Italy. He arrives at Ariminum (Rimini), where he is welcomed by the local population.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370992976#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "537", "revid": 1370992976, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 538, "year_label": "538 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gothic War: Vitiges strengthens the garrisons of various towns and besieges Ariminum. Byzantine forces under the Armenian general Narses arrive at Picenum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351200776#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "538", "revid": 1351200776, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}