Campania was influenced by the culture, government, and religion of the ancient Greeks and Romans during the Roman era.
With the initial exception of Naples, the region adopted Latin as official language, in that sense gradually replacing the native Oscan and the Greek and the Etruscan still talked respectively in their colonies of the region, subsequently becoming fully Romanised
Campania (, also UK: , US: , Italian: [kampanja], Neapolitan: [kambnj]) is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri

