Talk:Latium

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[edit] Modern Usage?

Is the term "Latium" still in use? Was it in use in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? It is used in the Papal States article to describe the land held by the pope from the 1860s on, but this article seems not to cover anything past the fourth century. MrZaius^talk 01:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

This is a good question. We have Lazio to cover the modern history of the region, but I'm not sure when "Latium" fell out of common use. Of course Latin continued as a language of administration and the educated elite long after Italian became the language of everyday speech, so it's possible that the government called the region Latium until the creation of the modern Italian state. --Akhilleus (talk) 01:12, 5 April 2007 (UTC)