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Tyrrhenians (Attic Greek: Τυῤῥηνοί Turrhēnoi) or Tyrsenians (Ionic: Τυρσηνοί Tursēnoi; Doric: Τυρσανοί Tursānoi [1]) was the name used by the ancient Greeks authors to refer, in a generic sense, to non-Greek people, in particular pirates.
Tyrsenian (also Tyrrhenian or Common Tyrrhenic), [1] named after the Tyrrhenians (Ancient Greek, Ionic: Τυρσηνοί Tyrsenoi) is an extinct family of closely related ancient languages put forward by linguist Helmut Rix in 1998, which consists of the Etruscan language of northern, central and south-western Italy, and eastern Corsica (); the Raetic language of the Alps, named after the ...
The Tyrrhenian Sea is situated near where the African and Eurasian Plates meet; therefore mountain chains and active volcanoes, such as Mount Marsili, are found in its depths. The eight Aeolian Islands and Ustica are located in the southern part of the sea, north of Sicily.
Tyrrhenian language family tree as proposed by de Simone and Marchesini (2013) [7] The German linguist Helmut Rix proposed in 1998 that Rhaetic, along with Etruscan, was a member of a language family he called Tyrrhenian, and which was possibly influenced by neighboring Indo-European languages.
Tyrrhenian may refer to the: Tyrrhenian Stage, a faunal stage from 0.26 to 0.01143 million years ago; Tyrrhenians, an ancient ethnonym associated with the Etruscans;
Isola del Giglio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːzola del ˈdʒiʎʎo]; Latin: Igilium), or Giglio Island in English, is an Italian island and comune (municipality) in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Tuscany, and is part of the Province of Grosseto.
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