ITALIANIZED TROJANS (OR PELASGIANS):Roma comes from the Etruscan clan "Ruma"; the legend said that Eneas was a Trojan prince founder of Roma, and antecessor of Romulus who led the rape of the Sabianian women. IDEA: Such ancient legend of the rape of Italic Sabinian women by Trojan or Etruscan men, in case to be true, or in the case to point that the invaders after slain the male population got for themselves the widows, would lead to the fact that it could have been a racial blend between Trojans and Italics in the region, but that the Italic language prevailed... but so affected by Trojan that splitted from the common Oscao-Umbrian Italic branch. There are evidences in the Latin numerals that in Roma once Etruscan was spoken. The Latins used a familiar formulation of evident Etruscan origin: each person is named with: praenomen, personal indication, and nomen or gentilicy, followed by the reference of the name of the father. Pausanias, Description of Greece book 8: That part of modern Rome, which once was the home of Evander and the Arcadians [Pelasgians] who accompanied him, got the name of Pallantium in memory of the city in Arcadia. [...] Aeneias collected a host of followers and set sail with his father Anchises and his son Ascanius; and some say that he took up his abode near the Macedonian Olympus, others that he founded Capyae near Mantineia in Arcadia, deriving the name he gave the settlement from Capys, and others say that he landed at Aegesta in Sicily with Elymus the Trojan and took possession of Eryx and Lilybaeum, and gave the names Scamander and Simoeis to rivers near Aegesta, and that thence he went into the Latin country and made it his abode, in accordance with an oracle which bade him abide where he should eat up his table, and that this took place in the Latin country in the neighborhood of Lavinium, where a large loaf of bread was put down for a table, for want of a better table, and eaten up along with the meats upon it. Homer, however, appears not to be in agreement with either of the two stories, nor yet with the above account of the founders of Scepsis; for he clearly indicates that Aeneias remained in Troy and succeeded to the empire and bequeathed the succession thereto to his sons' sons, the family of the Priamidae having been wiped out: "For already the race of Priam was hated, by the son of Cronus; and now verily the mighty Aeneias will rule over the Trojans, and his sons' sons that are hereafter to be born." (Strabo). IDEA: which branch of Trojans... ?

History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) by Titus Livius:
Similar misfortunes led to Aeneas becoming a wanderer but the Fates were
preparing a higher destiny for him. He first visited Macedonia,
then was carried down to Sicily in quest of a settlement; from Sicily he
directed his course to the Laurentian territory [Toscana]. Here,
too, the name of Troy is found, and here the Trojans disembarked, and as
their almost infinite wanderings had left them nothing but their
arms and their ships, they began to plunder the neighbourhood. The
Aborigines, who occupied the country, with their king Latinus at
their head came hastily together from the city and the country districts to
repel the inroads of the strangers by force of arms.
From this point there is a twofold tradition. According to the one, Latinus
was defeated in battle, and made peace with Aeneas, and
subsequently a family alliance. According to the other, whilst the two
armies were standing ready to engage and waiting for the signal,
Latinus advanced in front of his lines and invited the leader of the
strangers to a conference. He inquired of him what manner of men they
were, whence they came, what had happened to make them leave their homes,
what were they in quest of when they landed in Latinus'
territory. When he heard that the men were Trojans, that their leader was
Aeneas, the son of Anchises and Venus, that their city had been
burnt, and that the homeless exiles were now looking for a place to settle
in and build a city, he was so struck with the noble bearing of
the men and their leader, and their readiness to accept alike either peace
or war, that he gave his right hand as a solemn pledge of
friendship for the future. A formal treaty was made between the leaders and
mutual greetings exchanged between the armies. Latinus
received Aeneas as a guest in his house, and there, in the presence of his
tutelary deities, completed the political alliance by a domestic
one, and gave his daughter in marriage to Aeneas. This incident confirmed
the Trojans in the hope that they had reached the term of their
wanderings and won a permanent home. They built a town, which Aeneas called
Lavinium after his wife. In a short time a boy was born of
the new marriage, to whom his parents gave the name of Ascanius.
IDEA: some say that all these old traditions of wandering sea peoples were
nothing but a mere way to adjudicate
a glorious origin for each nation; but with so many linguistic tracks, so
many testimonies, so many little details,
so many archeological evidences and coincidences, and so many historical
facts prooved, why to invent so
many histories on vanquised peoples ?
IDEA: Such account also would point to a fussion of Trojans and native
Italics.
But Caesar, not only being fond of Alexander [the Great], but also having
better known evidences of kinship with the llians [Trojans],
felt encouraged to bestow kindness upon them with all the zest of youth:
better known evidences, first, because he was a Roman, and
because the Romans believe Aeneias [Trojan princep] to have been their
original founder. (Strabo).
IDEA: So the reports of an Anatolian origin of the Romans was not an
elithist speculation, but was a popular belief.
The ancient legends of Romul who unified Latins and Sabines are not quite
true - they just mixed within the seven Roman hills.
From the Villanovans arose both the Etruscans and Latins, two distinctly
different language groups.
Palatinum [Roman hill] and places around it contain many burial places where
burials were completed by burning of the dead.
That is why it was strange and surprising to find completely another type of
burials on the nearby hills of Aesquilinum, Viminal
and Quirinal. These burials, when dead people were laid unburned, start
appearing in the 9th century and continue in the 8th one.
Though it is obvious, that the culture of both communities was similar a
lot, they must have been different tribes: Latins and Sabines.
It is widely known that Latins everywhere used to burn the dead, while
Sabines and other tribes of the Osco-Umbrian branch,
on the contrary, never did such.
INFO: The Etruscan in the first period also burned their deceased.
Roma is an Etruscan name. The names of the three main triba (tribes) which
formed the first population of Rome, were Luceri,
Ticii, and Ramni. These, as many think nowadays, were the names of the three
tribes which composed the citizenship. While
Luceri could be Latins (they worshipped a wolf, lupus, which was their main
totem), Ticii must have been Sabines (from
their legendary king Titus), and Ramni, who gave the name to the whole city,
is not an Italic name - more likely an Etruscan
one.
According to ancient legends, the second king of Rome was Numa Pompilius, a
Sabine from the city of Cures. The next one,
Tullus Hostilius, was a Latin: we should mention that kings then were
elected by the people, so they did not succeed their
ancestors. The fourth king, Ancus Martius, again a Sabine, according to the
tradition, added the hill of Janiculum (across the
Tiber, on the Etruscan territory) to the city's borders. All this period
Etruscan migrants settled in Rome, and so when in 616 BC
a newcomer from Etruria, some Lucius Tarquinius, "ran for kingdom", he was
elected king, and this was the beginning of the
Etruscan rule in Rome.
A conflict between the Latin nobles and the king led to an uprising, and
Etruscans were ousted from the city in about 510 BC