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The word Latin has more than one meaning.
- The Latins were an ancient people of central Italy, in the region known as Latium. The most important of the Latin cities was Rome – see the founding of Rome for some details. In mythology, the name came from the mythical king Latinus.
- Later, the western half of the Roman Empire was often referred to as Latin, as opposed to the Greek east. This term was also applied to the Roman Catholic church and western successor states, and especially to the crusaders. For instance, the crusader kingdom in Constantinople is called the Latin EmpireThe knights of the Fourth Crusade set up a Crusader kingdom known as the Latin Empire or Romania based on Constantinople after sacking the city in 1204. They intended it to be a Roman Catholic successor of the Byzantine Empire. Baldwin IX, Count of Flande, and the kingdoms of JerusalemThe Kingdom of Jerusalem was a short-lived country established in the 12th century by the First Crusade. Foundation and Early History The kingdom came into being with the Crusader capture of Jerusalem in 1099. Godfrey of Bouillon refused, however, to take and AcreAkko Standard Hebrew Akko Tiberian Hebrew Akk Arabic Akk also, Acre Accho Acco and St. Jean d'Acre , is a city in Western Galilee in the North District, Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2003 the city had a were also known as Latin kingdoms.
- Ecclesiastical LatinEcclesiastical Latin sometimes called "Church Latin", is the Latin language as used in documents of the Roman Catholic Church. The dogmatic definitions of the first seven General Councils were given in Greek, and even in Rome Greek was at first the langua is the language used by the Roman Catholic Church, which is somewhat different from the Latin confined to the time of the Roman Empire.
- See Latin (adjective)For information on the langauge by the same name, see Latin As an adjective, Latin can be used to describe things relating to the Romance-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean and the Americas, such as in terms like Latin America Latin lover and Latin mus for information on the word used as an adjective.
See also: Latin language Wikipedia
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