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...[[Neolithic]] settlement and an important Etruscan center with an original civilization; it became a municipium in the Roman Age. The city was a bishop's residence *Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, with thousands of funeral [[urns]] dating back to the [[Hellenistic

...ralleling Greece and the Aegean) before "Orientalization" occurred and the Etruscan civilisation rose. ...his increasing lack of cultural distinction, including the adoption of the Etruscan upper class by the Romans, was one of the reasons for its eventual demise.

After [[Magna Graecia]], the [[Etruscan civilization]] and especially the [[Roman Republic]] and [[Roman Empire|Empire]] that do ...tered in the Po River valley and Etruria round Bologna, later an important Etruscan center, and areas in Emilia Romagna (at Verruchio and Fermi), in [[Tuscany]

...scany|Tuscan]] hill towns, was first settled in the time of the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]] (circa 900BC to 400BC) when it was inhabited by a tribe called ...|Romans]] founded a town called Saenna Julia on the site of a pre-existing Etruscan settlement, and from this has grown modern Siena. Siena may then have been

...n as Castello or la Cittade. The colony successfully fought the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]] for control of the Tyrrhenian. Allied with Syracuse at the time

The '''History of Sardinia''' covers several millennia of civilization of this [[Sardinia|Mediterranean isle]]. ...an between [[Carthage]], [[Spain]], the [[Rhone river]] and the [[Etruscan civilization]] area. The mining area around Iglesias was important for the metals (lead

Etruscan bronze figures and terra-cotta funerary ...cities of the Mediterranean. The Hellenistic styles then current in Greek civilization were adopted.

...nd developed centre by the times described; foundation of the city in the 'Etruscan lands' credited to settlers from [[Alfeios River|Alpheus]] coast.

...in the [[8th century BCE]]. During its twelve-century existence, the Roman civilization shifted from a [[monarchy]] to an [[oligarchy|oligarchic]] [[republic]] to ...is often grouped into "[[classical antiquity]]" with [[ancient Greece]], a civilization that inspired much of the [[culture of ancient Rome]]. Ancient Rome contrib

...ze Age]]. Scholars attribute the foundation to the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]]s.

** [[Rome]] captures and sacks the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]] city of [[Veii]] after a 10-year siege, the final assault was conducted b

...[Villanovan culture|villanovians]], a people of farmers and shepherds. The Etruscan city grew around a sanctuary built on a hill, and was surrounded by a necro Bologna developed as an Etruscan, then Roman colony along the Via Emilia, the street that still runs straigh

...r probably was in use much earlier, perhaps by the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscan]]s. It is also probable that the [[Phoenicians]] had bases in Genoa, or in

...e of the [[Alps]]"). The Roman culture and language overwhelmed the former civilization in the following years, and Lombardy became one of the most developed and r

...nus river, in an area that had previously been inhabited by the [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]], the [[Umbri]]ans, the [[Greeks]] and the [[Gauls]], the [[Roma

...en inhabited since prehistoric times, and was later occupied by [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]], the Eugaei or [[Raetii]] tribes, but the first historical reco

...the most powerful, largest and longest lasting empire of classical Western civilization. The [[Vatican City|Vatican]], a sovereign [[enclave]] within Rome, is the The civilization of ancient Rome originated in the [[8th century BC|8th]] or [[9th century B

...isted there since prehistoric times. After [[Magna Graecia]], the Etruscan civilization and especially the [[Roman Republic]] and [[Roman Empire|Empire]] that domi