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Etruscan civilization is the modern English
name given to the culture and way of life of a
people of ancient Italy and Corsica whom the ancient
Romans called Etrusci or Tusci. The Attic Greek word
for them was Τυρρήνιοι (Tyrrhēnioi) from which Latin
also drew the names Tyrrhēni (Etruscans), Tyrrhēnia
(Etruria) and Tyrrhēnum mare (Tyrrhenian Sea). The
Etruscans themselves used the term Rasenna, which
was syncopated to Rasna or Raśna.
As distinguished by its own language, the
civilization endured from an unknown prehistoric
time prior to the foundation of Rome until its
complete assimilation to Italic Rome in the Roman
Republic. At its maximum extent during the
foundation period of Rome and the Roman kingdom, it
flourished in three confederacies of cities: of
Etruria, of the Po valley with the eastern Alps, and
of Latium and Campania. Rome was sited in Etruscan
territory. There is considerable evidence that early
Rome was dominated by Etruscans until the Romans
sacked Veii in 396 BC.
Culture that is identifiably and certainly Etruscan
developed in Italy after about 800 BC approximately
over the range of the preceding Iron Age Villanovan
culture. The latter gave way in the seventh century
to a culture that was influenced by Greek traders
and Greek neighbors in Magna Graecia, the Hellenic
civilization of southern Italy.
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"Etruscan Civilization" Wikipedia, The Free
Encyclopaedia. 22 July 2004, 10:55 UTC. Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc. 10 Aug. 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscans
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