Messapians
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The Messapians were an Iapygian tribe who inhabited Salento, a region in what is now southern Italy, in classical antiquity. Two other Iapygian tribes, the Peucetians and the Daunians, inhabited centr
Messapian ceramics in Archaeological Museum of Oria.
Messapic language
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Messapic is an extinct Paleo-Balkanic language of the Indo-European language family once spoken by the Iapygian peoples – the Calabri and Salentini, the Peucetians, and the Daunians – in an area that
Messapians
…antiquity. Two other Iapygian tribes, the Peucetians and the Daunians, inhabited central and northern Apulia respectively. All three tribes spoke the Messapian language, but had developed separate archaeological cultures by the seventh century BC. The Messapians lived in the Messapia region, which extended from Leuca…
3rd–2nd century BC Messapic inscription
Southern Samnium and northern Apulia were major regions of Iapygian-Italic linguistic contact