Lucania
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Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy, named after its native Lucani, an Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in
A mounted Lucani warrior, fresco from a tomb of Paestum, Italy, c. 360 BC
A Lucani man riding a chariot, from a tomb in Paestum, Italy, 4th century BC
Bruttians
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The Bruttians were an ancient Italic people. They inhabited the southern extremity of Italy, from the frontiers of Lucania to the Sicilian Straits and the promontory of Leucopetra. This roughly corres
Lucania
…Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in the north, Apulia in the east, and Bruttium in the south-west, and was at the tip of the peninsula which is now called Calabria. It comprised almost all the modern region of Basilicata, the…
Bruttium outline
Bronze coin of the Bruttii (ΒΡΕΤΤΙΩΝ), 208-205 BC
Southern Italy in antiquity.