Alba

This name derives from the Latin “albus > alba,” meaning “white, sunrise, twilight, clear, bright, shining (Latin: Dīlūcŭlum, prima lux, aurora).” Albalonga was an ancient city of Latium in central Italy, southeast of Rome, in the Alban Hills. Rome destroyed founder and head of the Latin League around the middle of the 7th-century BC. In legend, Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, had come from the royal dynasty of Alba Longa. The Latin Kings of Alba Longa, also referred to as the Latin Kings of Rome or Alban kings of Rome, are a series of legendary kings of Latium ruling, mainly from Alba Longa. In the mythic tradition of the founding of Rome, they fill the 400-year gap between the settlement of Aeneas in Italy and the establishment of the city walls of Rome by Romulus and Remus. It was this line of descent to which the Julii claimed kinship.