The Roman military confeeration (or confederacy or commonwealth) is a term devised by modern historians to denote the Roman Republic's system of military alliances with the tribes and city-states of the Italian peninsula prior to the Social War of 91-88 BC, at the end of which all Rome's Italian allies were awarded Roman citizenship. The Romans themselves referred to their confederates as the socii Latini ("Latin allies"), although most were not members of the Latin tribe strictly speaking, but members of various other Italian tribes and city-states.