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	Lucania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lucanians were a southern branch of the Samnite or Sabellic race, who spoke the Oscan language.
		The Lucanians gradually conquered the whole country (with the exception of the Greek towns on the coast) from the borders of Samnium and Campania to the southern extremity of Italy.
		In the time of Strabo the Greek cities on the coast had fallen into insignificance, and owing to the decrease of population and cultivation the malaria began to obtain the upper hand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucania (1051 words)

	Lucania - LoveToKnow 1911
		The only considerable stream on the western side is the Silarus (Sele), which constitutes the northern boundary, and has two important tributaries in the Calor (Calore) and the Tanager (Negro) which joins it from the south.
		The district of Lucania was so called from the people bearing the name Lucani (Lucanians) by whom it was conquered about the middle of the 5th century B.C. Before that period it was included under the general name of Oenotria, which was applied by the Greeks to the southernmost portion of Italy.
		The Lucanians were a southern branch of the Samnite or Sabelline race, who spoke the Osca Lingua.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lucania (982 words)

	Lucani (ancient people) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lucani (Lucanians) were an ancient people of Italy who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages.
		The Lucanians were engaged in hostilities with the Greek colony of Taras/Tarentum, and with Alexander, king of Epirus, who was called in by the Tarentine people to their assistance, in 326 BC, thus providing a precedent for Epirote interference in the affairs of Magna Graecia.
		Subsequently, however, the Lucanians suffered by choosing the losing side in the various wars on the peninsula in which Rome took part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucani_(ancient_people) (422 words)

	LUCANIANS AT FETHiYE IN 2000 B.C.
		LUCANIANS AT FETHiYE IN 2000 B.C. The Lucanians, living within and to the east of Fethiye, put in an active appearance for the first time in the middle of the year B.C. Although the name Lukka (Lugga) within the Hitite documents are accepted as Lycians, there is still dispute about the date of their settlement.
		The area of settlement of the Lucanians in the second quarter of 2000 B.C. is definitely established as around Esen River and the surrounding valley.
		The underlying factor in the support of the Lucanians of the Aegean migrations and the sea-faring tribes is mostly economical.
	www.gofethiye.com /fethiye/lucanians_at_fethiye_in_2000_b.htm (1022 words)

	Taranto - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 466 BC, Taranto was defeated by Iapyges, a native population of ancient Apulia, and the monarchy fell, with the inauguration of a democracy, and the expulsion of the Pythagoreans.
		In 343 BC Taranto appealed for aid against the barbarian to its mother city Sparta, in the face of aggression by the Brutian League.
		In 304 BC, Taranto was attacked by the Lucanians, and asked for the help of Agathocles tyrant of Syracuse, king of Sicily.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Taranto (4312 words)

	Thurii
		Thurii had a democratic constitution and good laws, and, though we hear little of its history till in 390 BC it received a severe defeat from the rising power of the Lucanians[?].
		In the 4th century BC it continued to decline, and at length called in the help of the Romans against the Lucanians, and then in 282 BC against Tarentum.
		Thenceforward its position was dependent, and in the Second Punic War, after several vicissitudes, it was depopulated and plundered by Hannibal in 204 BC.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thurii.html (386 words)

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		The oracle of Delphi determined that the city had no founder but Apollo, and in the Athenian War in Sicily Thurii was at first neutral, though it finally helped the Athenians.
		Thurii had a democratic constitution and good laws, and, though we hear little of its history till in 390 it received a severe defeat from the rising power of the Lucanians, many beautiful coins testify to the wealth and splendour of its days of prosperity.
		In the 4th century it continued to decline, and at length called in the help of the Romans against the Lucanians, and then in 282 against Tarentum.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=65734 (1559 words)

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		The district of Lucania was so called from the people bearing the name Lucani (Lucanians) by whom it was conquered about the middle of the 5th century B.C. Before that period it was included under the general name of Oenotria, which was appliedby the Greeks to the southernmost portion of Italy.
		The Lucanians were a southern branch of the Samnite or Sabelline race, who spoke the Osca Lingua (q.v.).
		The country never recovered from these disasters, and under the Roman government fell into decay, to which the Social War, in which the Lucanians took part with the Samnites against Rome (9o-88 B.C.) gave the finishing stroke.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=40635&locale=en (998 words)

	Gaius Luscinus Fabricius - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 285 he was one of the ambassadors sent to the Tarentines to dissuade them from making war on the Romans.
		After the defeat of the Romans by Pyrrhus at Heraclea (280), Fabricius was sent to treat for the ransom and exchange of the prisoners.
		Fabricius afterwards gained a series of victories over the Samnites, the Lucanians and the Bruttians, and on his return to Rome received the honour of a triumph.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gaius_Luscinus_Fabricius (281 words)

	Basilicata itineraries History
		Later, in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., the Lucanians attacked the Greek colonies along the Jonian coast in their quest for new land to cultivate.
		Meanwhile, the Saracen invasions force the Lucanians to retreat to the surrounding mountains and hills.
		In 1663, Matera is the capital of the Lucanian Province of the Kingdom of Naples.
	www.aaanetserv.com /turismo/basilicata/t_basilicata_storia.html (1085 words)

	Virtual Rome \| West \| Italia \| Lucania
		These Lucanians conquered most of the interior in about the mid-fifth century BC, and a generation or two later began to reduce their Greek neighbors, becoming partially Hellenized themselves.
		In 326 the Lucanians formed an alliance with Rome, but underwent military intervention from Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus in 298, and in 291 were so seriously provoked by the Roman colonization of Venusia (Venosa) that they promptly supported the Epirote king Pyrrhus when he invaded Italy (281).
		The western emperor Libius Severus (461-65) was a Lucanian by birth.
	www.magellannarfe.com /virtualrome/west/italia/lucania (479 words)

	lucania - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The coinage of the Lucanians, like that of the Bruttians, with which it is contemporary, did not commence before the beginning of the third century B.C. at the earliest, and it did not continue beyond the conclusion of the Second Punic War, when, after Hannibal's departure, Lucania was finally subdued by Rome.
		B.C. By the Lucanians the name of the town was corrupted into Paestum.
		The coins of Paestum, as the barbarous Lucanians desig- nated the ancient and wealthy Greek city that had fallen into their hands, are all of a late period.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=lucania (4809 words)

	LEONARDIS
		The cultural label of "Lucaniansí was first applied by the Greek historiographers who were not very interested in ethnography in the modern sense.
		Thus any reference to ëLucaniansí in these writers is inevitably tainted by the recent bloodshed of the social wars.
		The Lucanians may have exhibited a very early tendency for identification with a coherent ëethnic groupí.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/99mtg/abstracts/leonardis.html (609 words)

	bruttium - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This people, the original inhabitants of the peninsula which afterwards bore their name, made themselves independent of the Lucanians in B.C. In process of time they conquered several of the Greek coast-towns, and, as their coins testify, acquired the language and, to some extent, the arts, religion, and civilization of the Greeks.
		The league which they then formed for mutual defence against these two formidable enemies is alluded to in the type of the Crotoniate coinage of this time, a type which is the same as that of the contemporary money of Thebes and of the alliance coins of Ephesus, Samos, Cnidus, Byzantium, Iasus, and Rhodes.
		It afterwards passed successively under the dominion of the Lucanians (B.C. 365) and the Bruttians (B.C. 356) who held it, except for a brief interval when Alexander of Epirus released it from their yoke (circ.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=bruttium (6279 words)

	APT Basilicata: The Lucanians
		The Lucanian society was ruled by an oligarchy, within which a Basileus (king) was chosen in case of war.
		Towards the middle of the IV century, the Lucanians had to face the rebellion of the inhabitants of the south-western area, called ‘Brettians’, until their definitive separation.
		At the end of the IV century and during the III century B.C., the Lucanians were involved, directly or as mercenaries, in a series of bloody wars on several fronts and in particular against Rome which caused a general impoverishment of the area leading to the abandonment of a lot of preexistent settlements.
	www.aptbasilicata.it /Les-Lucaniens.60+M52087573ab0.0.html (224 words)

	Bryn Mawr College Graduate Student Symposium: All for One or One for All? (Re)constructing Identity in the Ancient World
		Viewing the Campanians and Lucanians this way explains several problems and produces a different interpretation of the famous scenes of warriors and matriarchs depicted inside the walls of their chamber tombs and on the red-figure vases housed within these very same walls.
		The confusion surrounding the identity of the Campanians and Lucanians has been shown to be the result of the varying Greek and Roman sources in the accounts of the Augustan writers.
		A important aspect of the lives of Campanians and Lucanians which has been ignored is the unceasing warfare going on in the fourth century in southern Italy and Sicily.
	www.brynmawr.edu /Acads/Arch/guesswho/leonardis.html (5125 words)

	The Ultimate Taranto Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		In 472 BC, Taranto signed an alliance with Rhegion, to counter the Messapi, Peucezi and Lucanians (all Italic populations), but the Tarantine and Reggian joint armies were defeated near Kailìa (modern Ceglie).
		In 343 BC Taranto appealed for aid against the barbarian to its mother city Sparta, in the face of aggression by the Bruttian League.
		In 333 BC, still troubled by its Italic neighbours, the Tarantine called the Epiriotic king Alexander Molossus to fight the Bruttii, Samnites, and Lucanians, but he was later (331 BC) defeated and killed in the battle of Pandosia (near Cosenza).
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Tarentum (3879 words)

	Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 12
		Situated upon the coast, they had engaged in commerce, and on account of their wealth they were subject to the depredations of their less civilized neighbors, the Lucanians and Bruttians.
		The Lucanians, Bruttians, and Samnites.—Some of the people in the south of Italy were still loath to accept the supremacy of Rome, and kept up a kind of guerrilla warfare for some time.
		But the Lucanians and Bruttians were soon obliged to submit, and all the cities on the coast finally came under the Roman power.
	www.forumromanum.org /history/morey12.html (1576 words)

	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 23
		The Lucanians were accustomed to breed up their children with the same kind of education as the Spartans; for, from their earliest boyhood, they were kept in the wilds among the shepherds, without any slaves to attend them, and even without clothes
		Their first war was with the Lucanians, from whom they sprung.
		Encouraged by a victory over them, and making peace on equal terms, they subdued the rest of their neighbours by force of arms, and acquired, in a short time, such extraordinary strength, that they were thought formidable even by princes.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans23.html (1545 words)

	Pyrrhic War - History of the Roman Empire
		The Lucanians and Bruttians, in the early 3rd Century BC, continued attacks on these Greek colonies and they, in 283 BC, appealed to the Roman regional power for help.
		Heeding the call for aid from regional city-states such as Locri, Rhegim, Croton and Thurii against the Lucanians, Rome sent troops by way of sea to garrison the town of Thurii in 282 BC.
		Despite the call for aid, Tarentum considered this a breach of the treaty and a hostile act of aggression.
	www.unrv.com /empire/pyrrhic-war.php (1882 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 116 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		332, Alexander, at the request of the Tarentines, crossed over into Italy, to aid them against the Lucanians and Bruttii.
		After a victory over the Samnites and Lucanians near Paestum he made a treaty with the Romans.
		He took Heraclea and Consen- tia from the Lucanians, and Terina and Sipontum from the Bruttii.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0125.html (737 words)

	Nova Roma - Aquila
		Before its conquest by the Lucanians, a Samnite tribe, about mid-5th century BCE, it formed part of the Greek-dominated region of Oenotria.
		Recent discoveries of elaborately painted graves at Paestum, a city taken by the Lucanians in about 400, suggest that by the 4th century
		Although they allied with Rome in 298, the Lucanians opposed and were defeated by that power in the Pyrrhic War (280-275), the second Punic War (218-201), and the Social War (90-88).
	www.novaroma.org /aquila/january/01.htm (498 words)

	Palinurus
		The helmsman of Aeneas, who, while asleep, fell into the sea at the coast of Lucania.
		He swam to the coast but was killed by the Lucanians.
		A mountain near that place is named after him (the current Palinuro).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/palinurus.html (54 words)

	Il brigante lucano - storia della protesta lucana contro le scorie
		Who comes to extract our oil must make it in the respect of the nature, but overall in the respect of the people that worked the fields for many generations and are not disposed to abandon it for any reson.
		The Agri Valley park must be respected and his border have not to be smaller in favor of the oil industry
		Who comes to invest on the Jonic Lucanian coast must make it in consideration the coastal erosion, the investment could be taken place to lost bottom and the coastal plants could have some negative influences
	www.ilbrigantelucano.com /lucaniae.asp (271 words)

	Roman Project Map 2: 279 BC
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		Under constant attacks from the Lucanians and Bruttians, the Greek cities in Italy sought aid from Rome in 283 BC.
		However, Tarentum, an old ally of Rome, took exception at the incursion into Tarentum territory.
	www.travelin-tigers.com /zhs/hsrom02.htm (190 words)

	CQD Roman History Review - Pyrrhic War
		Rome sends fleet to protect Greek city of Thurii from Lucanian attacks.
		This was Rome's first encounter with 20 Indian elephants, which they called "Lucanian Oxen." Pyrrhus negotiated about prisoners of war with the Roman ambassador C. Fabricius.
		Pyrrhus' agent Cineas went to the Rome but the formal offer of peace was rejected following a rousing speech by Appius Claudius.
	www.speakeasy.org /~bwduncan/rhr/pyrrhic.html (289 words)

	Livy: the Periochae of Books 71-75
		The following Italian nations revolted: the Picentes, Vestinians, Marsians, Paelignians, Marrucinians, Samnites, and Lucanians.
		The first act of war was by the Picentes, who killed proconsul Quintus Servilius in the town Asculum, with all Roman citizens who were in this town.
		Servius Galba, who was captured by the Lucanians, was released from captivity by one single woman, with whom he had been lodging.
	www.livius.org /li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae071.html (1033 words)

	CQD Roman History Review - Latin & Samnite Wars
		Lucanians = similar to Samnites but more organized as a federation
		Campanians = urban Sabellian population influenced by Greeks and Etruscans
		Lucanians appeal to Rome for aid against the Samnites
	www.speakeasy.org /~bwduncan/rhr/samnite.html (431 words)

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