What is "marsi"

Marsi is the Latin exonym for an Italic people of ancient Italy, whose chief centre was Marruvium, on the eastern shore of Lake Fucinus (which was drained for agricultural land in the late 19th century). The area in which they lived is now called Marsica. During the Roman Republic, the people of the region spoke a language now termed Marsian in scholarly English. It is attested by several inscriptions and a few glosses. The Linguist List classifies it as one of the Umbrian Group of languages.

The Marsi were a small Germanic tribe settled between the Rhine, Ruhr and Lippe rivers in northwest Germany. It has been suggested that they were a part of the Sugambri who managed to stay east of the Rhine after most Sugambri had been moved from this area. Strabo describes the Marsi as an example of a Germanic tribe who were originally from the Rhine area, now the war-torn Roman frontier, but had migrated deep into Germania.

Marsi may refer to:

• Marsi (Italic tribe), a tribe of ancient Italy
• Marsi (Germanic), a tribe of ancient Germany
• Counts of Marsi, counts in Southern Italy from the 11th and 12th centuries AD
• Bishop of Marsi of the Diocese of Marsi, a former central Italian Roman Catholic bishopric
• Marsi Gallery, a gallery in Thailand

• Francesca Marsi (1926-1989), Italian actress
• Márk Marsi (born 1973), Hungarian fencer
• Paolo Marsi (1440-1481), Italian humanist

• Marsi Paribatra (1931-2013), Thai princess