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| | ICA/UT: Croton Introduction |
 | | Croton was among the earliest Greek colonies in Italy, founded, like Metapontum, by Achaeans from the northern Peloponnese in the late 8th century BC. |
 | | Croton quickly regained her liberty and revived, but the Roman advance in the 3rd century, which saw the incorporation of Croton - and all of the other Greek colonies - into the Roman orbit, ushered in a longer period of neglect, decline, and depopulation that lasted until the end of the 1st century AD. |
 | | The chora of Croton, unlike that of Metapontum, had never been systematically explored prior to the inauguration of the ICA project in 1983, with the permission and encouragement of the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Calabria and the Ministero dei Beni Culturali. |
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