List of Roman tribes

Tribes (Latin: tribus) were groupings of citizens in ancient Rome, originally based on location.

Attributed by Livy to the sixth Roman king, Servius Tullius,[3] the urban tribes were named for districts of the city and were the largest and had the least political power.

Many rural tribes derive from prominent Roman gentes, or family names, such as Cornelia or Fabia.

Literature and archaeological documentation show that the urban tribes are enumerated according to a counter-clockwise circuit of the city.

Archaeological findings of tesserae led Michael Crawford[6] to suggest that the tribes were ordered according to the principal roads leading counter-clockwise from Rome (Ostiensis, Appia, Latina, Praenestina, Valeria, Salaria, Flaminia and Clodia).