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Etruria (/ ɪ ˈ t r ʊər i ə / ih-TROOR-ee-ə) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, [1] an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria.
The Kingdom of Etruria (/ ɪ ˈ t r ʊər i ə / ih-TROOR-ee-ə; Italian: Regno di Etruria) was an Italian kingdom between 1801 and 1807 that made up a large part of modern Tuscany. It took its name from Etruria , the old Roman name for the land of the Etruscans .
Etruria saw itself relegated to the northern Tyrrhenian Sea. From the first half of the 5th century BC, Campanian Etruria lost its Etruscan character, and the new international political situation meant the beginning of the Etruscan decline. In 480 BC, Etruria's ally Carthage was defeated by a coalition of Magna Graecia cities led by Syracuse.
Cover of the 4th edition of "Etruscologia" by Massimo Pallottino. Etruscology is the study of the ancient civilization of the Etruscans in Italy (), which was incorporated into an expanding Roman Empire during the period of Rome's Middle Republic.
The area covered by the Etruscan civilisation. Etruscan cities were a group of ancient settlements that shared a common Etruscan language and culture, even though they were independent city-states.
From the late 9th century BC, the human settlement in the Lower Po valley, previously organized in small groups of huts scattered throughout the country and mostly inhabited by Umbrians or other Italics, centers in some major urban areas as Bologna, the main city of Padanian Etruria, and Verucchio, then flourishing settlement in the heart of Romagna, by initiative of the etruscan colonists.
Rusellae was an important ancient town of Etruria (roughly modern Tuscany), which survived until the Middle Ages before being abandoned. [1] The impressive archaeological remains lie near the modern frazione or village of Roselle ( Italian: [roˈzɛlle] ) in the comune of Grosseto .
The Family of the King of Etruria While Louis was staying in Spain, the Duchy of Parma had been occupied by French troops in 1796. Napoleon Bonaparte , who had conquered most of Italy and wanted to gain Spain as an ally against England, proposed to compensate the House of Bourbon for their loss of the Duchy of Parma with the Kingdom of Etruria ...