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	Bruttium - Encyclopedia.com
		Bruttium, ancient region, S Italy, roughly occupying the present Calabria, the "toe" of the Italian peninsula.
		Inhabited in the interior by the Brutii (whose chief town was Cosenza) and by the Lucani, it was settled (8th cent.
		BC Rhegium and Vibo Valentia were important Roman cities of Bruttium.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Bruttium.html (197 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bruttium (Ancient History, Rome) - Encyclopedia
		Bruttium faced Sicily across the Strait of Messina.
		Inhabited in the interior by the Brutii (whose chief town was Cosenza) and by the Lucani, it was settled (8th cent.
		The Romans conquered Bruttium in the 3d cent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bruttium.html (198 words)

	Bruttium — Infoplease.com
		Sybaris - Sybaris Sybaris, ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now...
		Thurii - Thurii Thurii, ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now...
		Crotona - Crotona Crotona, Croton,or Kroton, ancient city, S Italy, on the east coast of Bruttium (now...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0809246.html (175 words)

	Ancient coinage of Bruttium
		It was pillaged by Dionysius, and its population removed to Syracuse in B.C. Ten years later it was re-established by the Carthaginians, and its inhabitants restored.
		Mesma or Medma, on the west coast of Bruttium, was a Locrian colony.
		Temesa was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Bruttium.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/bruttium.html (6282 words)

	G081 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bruttium was a country in the "Toe" of Italy, roughly corresponding to modern Calabria.
		The name comes from the ancient tribe of Bruttii, who occupied the area before the Greeks colonized it began in the 8th century BC.
		After defeating Pyrrhus, the Romans invaded Bruttium and occupied most of the country.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /historia/coins/g2/g081.htm (114 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BRUTTIUM [ Bruttium], ancient region, S Italy, roughly occupying the present Calabria, the toe of the Italian peninsula.
		separated from Campania by the River Silarus in the north and from Bruttium by the River Laus in the south.
		The name was first given in the 6th century BC to the city-states on the east coast of what the Romans later called Bruttium (the 'toe' of Italy).
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=ency_botresults&q=Bruttium (508 words)

	Young Carthaginian, The
		Mago with one division of the army was sent into Bruttium to take possession of such towns as might submit.
		Mago embarked at one of the ports of Bruttium to carry the news of Hannibal's success to Carthage, and to demand reinforcements.
		Neither Rome nor Carthage had the complete mastery of the sea, and as the disaster which had befallen Rome by land would greatly lessen her power to maintain a large fleet, Carthage could now have poured reinforcements in by the ports of Bruttium without difficulty.
	manybooks.net /pages/hentygaetext04yocar10/261.html (170 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cassiodorus
		Syrian ancestry, his family had been for at least three generations one of the most important in Bruttium (Southern Italy).
		His great-grandfather successfully defended Bruttium during the Vandal invasion of 455; his grandfather was signally favoured by Valentinian III and Actius, but chose to retire early from his honourable career, and his father went through all the degrees of the magistracy, at length being made prætorian prefect and a patrician by Theodoric.
		Cassiodorus or, more properly, Senator, born on the paternal estate at Scyllaceum (Squillace) in 490 or somewhat earlier, made his first appearance as councillor to the prætorian prefect about 501.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03405c.htm (1489 words)

	Livy's History of Rome
		The new consuls, Cnaeus Servilius and Caius Servilius, laid before the senate the questions of the general policy of the republic, the conduct of the war and the assignment of the provinces.
		The one to whom Bruttium fell was to take over the army from P. Sempronius, and Sempronius, whose command was extended for a year as proconsul, was to relieve P. Licinius; the latter was to return to Rome.
		Arrangements similar to those in Bruttium were also made in Etruria and Liguria; M. Cornelius was to hand over his army to the new consul and hold the province of Gaul with the legions which L. Scribonius had commanded the previous year.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Livy/Livy30.html (19325 words)

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		The toe of Italy was Bruttium and was so designated on the administrative maps of Caesar Augustus.
		During the Punic wars Hannibal spent a good deal of time in Bruttium, forcing the surrender of the main cities, which were later punished by the victorious and vindictive Romans.
		Later on Bruttium was where Sparticus and his followers were brought to bay by an army which included a young officer named Julius Caesar.
	www.logonix.net /~chiara/bruttium.htm (412 words)

	Bruttium
		Thurii - Thurii, ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now...
		Sybaris - Sybaris, ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now...
		Crotona - Crotona or Croton, ancient city, S Italy, on the east coast of Bruttium (now Calabria), a colony of...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0809246.html (174 words)

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	www.centrostudibruttium.org (325 words)

	Bruttium
		There are no mentions of the Pelasgian having settled in the Bruttium, but just for Crimisa, the legend relates it to the Troyans, which probbably spoke a Thracian-like language, showing the same phonetic feature of the "Pelasgian" language.
		The ancient inhabitants of the Bruttium are reported to have been Oenotri and Ausoni.
		One is Western Italic, with essentially no consonant shift, the other shows the typical consonant shift which I interprete as a remnant of the Liguro-Sicanian stratum.
	digilander.libero.it /toponomastica/bruttium.html (2874 words)

	A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Cassiodorus (or rather, Cassiodorius) Magnus Aurelius, senator, and chief minister to the Ostrogothic princes of Italy, born at Scylacium (Squillace) in Bruttium, 469–470, of a noble, wealthy, and patriotic family.
		After the final defeat of Odoacer by Theodoric at Ravenna, 493, Cassiodorus retired to his patrimonial estate in Bruttium, and secured the wavering allegiance of the provincials to the cause of the new ruler; for this service he was appointed by Theodoric to the official government of Lucania and Bruttium.
		Happy in the art of ruling to the satisfaction of the governed without neglecting the interests of his master, he was summoned, upon the conclusion of his prefecture, to Ravenna, and advanced successively to the dignities of secretary, quaestor, master of the offices, praetorian prefect, patrician, and consul.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.Cassiodorus.html (1158 words)

	Livy's History of Rome
		Out of the twelve communities in Bruttium who had gone over to the Carthaginians the year before, two, namely Consentia and Thurii, returned to their old allegiance to Rome, and more would have done so had it not been for T. Pomponius Veientanus, an officer of allies.
		He had made several successful raids in Bruttium and had in consequence began to be regarded as a regularly commissioned general.
		He had a secret interview with Mago, who was commanding in Bruttium, and obtained his solemn pledge that if he would betray the Roman commander to the Carthaginians the Lucanians should be taken into friendship and allowed to live as a free people under their own laws.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Livy/Livy25.html (19504 words)

	CAECINUS : River god of Bruttium in Italy ; Greek mythology : KAIKINOS
		CAECINUS : River god of Bruttium in Italy ; Greek mythology : KAIKINOS
		KAIKINOS (or Caecinus) was a River-God of the land of Bruttium in southern Italia.
		The most important neighbouring rivers were the Krataeis of Bruttium, and Symaithos of nearby Sikelia (Sicily).
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosKaikinos.html (153 words)

	(6) Kroton, Bruttium (Italy)
		(6) Kroton, Bruttium (Italy) - AR stater, c.
		Reverse: Baby Herakles seated on ground l., strangling two snakes.
		Little is known of the history of Kroton in this period.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/art/buerger/catalogue/006.html (178 words)

	The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Bruttium @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Bruttium @ HighBeam Research
		BRUTTIUM [Bruttium], ancient region, S Italy, roughly occupying the present Calabria, the "toe" of the Italian peninsula.
		Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Bruttium&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (154 words)

	Bruttium, Rhegion - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com
		Bruttium, Rhegion - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com
		Click here for the Bruttium, Rhegion page with thumbnail images.
		Entry for Bruttium, Rhegion on the Digital Historia Numorum
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/bruttium/rhegion/i.html (423 words)

	SITES OF THE CELATORS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Along this shoreline, the walker passes the ancient Greek walls of Rhegion (above, picture left) as well as the Tripod Monument (above, picture right) celebrating the ancient Bruttium region's Greek heritage.
		Q: Is the tripod one of the archetypal symbols of Bruttium?
		A: Yes, but as the Lion's Head is more likely found on the coinage of Rhegion, the Tripod is most prevalent on the coins of Bruttium's other great city, Kroton.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9854/PageRheg.html (221 words)

	Definition of Bruttium - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Bruttium - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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		Bruttium, ancient region, S Italy, roughly occupying the present Calabria
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	The wars in Spain and Africa (from Hannibal) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hasdrubal's army was defeated, however, at Metaurus in northern Italy (207) before the Carthaginian armies could effect a junction.
		His last hope of making a recovery in central Italy thus dashed, Hannibal concentrated his forces in Bruttium, where with the help of his remaining allies he was able to resist Roman pressure for four more years.
		Scipio, however, struck at North Africa, breaking Carthage's principal ally, the Massaesylian Numidians, and endangering Carthage.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-3014 (1144 words)

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