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How did the Samnites gain control of Pompeii?

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Ruins of ancient Pompeii with stone columns and walls in the foreground, and Mount Vesuvius rising in the background under a partly cloudy sky. — Pompeii Mount Vesuvius rising up over the ruins of the ancient Roman city Pompeii.

Toward the end of the 5th century BCE, the Samnites—a warlike Italic tribe—conquered the Campania region of Italy. Through this military conquest, Pompeii, along with the neighboring towns of Herculaneum and Stabiae, transitioned into Samnite towns.1