---Etruria---



#LEADER LIST (Calgacus)

Osiniu
Mezentius
Lausus
Tyrsenos 
Velsu
Larthia 
Arimnestos
Lars Porsena
Thefarie Velianas 
Aruns
Volumnius
Lars Tolumnius


#CITY LIST (Thamis)

Caere
Volci
Gravisca
Tarquinii
Casa
Telamun
Vetulonia
Populonia
Volaterrae
Bologna
Mantua
Adria
Spina
Arretium
Cortona
Perusia
Rusellae
Clusium
Volsinii
Vei
Pompeii
Bisenzio
Sutri
Nepi
Falerii
Felsina
Mediolano



#CIVILOPEDIA ENTRY (Thamis)

#RACE_ETRUSCANS
^The Etruscans are $LINK<militaristic and commercial=GCON_Strengths>.
^They build $LINK<???>.
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The origin of the Etruscans is unvertain. Their language was unrelated to any other European language, suggesting
that the Etruscans may have migrated into Italy from the Middle East. There is no convincing evidence of this, however,
and it is more likely that the Etruscans were an idigenous people.
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Etruria was rich in iron and copper ores, had good agricultural land and a coastline with many natural harbours,
which encourage the Etruscans to become active seafarers and traders. Most early Etruscan cities were sited
a few kilometers from the coast, close enough for convenience but not voulerable to priate raids. Each city was
and independent state ruled by a king but the twelve most important cities were loosely united in the Etruscan league.
#DESC_RACE_ETRUSCANS
From the 8th century the Etruscans faced competition from Greek and Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean.
The foundation of the Greek colony at Massilia (Marseille, France) around 600 BC was a particularly serious development
as it shut the Etruscans out of the important trans-Gallic tin routes. To some extent this was offset by Etruscan
expansion into the Po valley in the 6th century. With Carthaginian help, the Etruscans succeeded in driving the
Greeks out of Corsica in 535 BC, but attacks on the Greeks at Kymai (Cumae) in southern Italy were repulsed.
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Despite these hostilities, the Etruscan culture had become very Hellenized by the 6th century BC.
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- John Haywood, Historical Atlas of the Ancient World, 1.25

