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	Museum of Muro Leccese - Homepage
		Muro Leccese with its 107 hectares enclosed within the town walls, is the largest Messapian town known of in Salento.
		The research carried out by the University of Lecce, by the Apulian Archaeological Superintendancy and the by the École Française de Rome, has brought to light many remains of the settlement, already seen to be growing during the 9th and 8th century BC.
		After the Messapian centre was abandoned, perhaps following the advance of Roman dominion, the area was cultivated for a lengthy period, first by Roman farms, and later by new villages of Byzantine times.
	www.museomuro.it /english (521 words)

	Messapian language - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Messapian (also known as Messapic) is an extinct Indo-European language of South-Eastern Italy, in the regions of Apulia and Calabria.
		It was spoken by the Messapians, the Iapyges, and other tribes in the region.
		The link between Messapian and Illyrian is based mostly on personal names found on tomb inscriptions and on classical references, since hardly any traces of the Illyrian language are left.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Messapian (195 words)

	WTE-Apulia in the World [City of Patù - Messapian Site]
		Very few archaelogical sites are as important in Italy as those in the Vereto area, because here the cradle of the messapian civilization, formed at the dawn of the first millenium b.c.
		the town of Vereto, first center founded by the Messapians on the homonymous hill in the current territory of the town of Patù (Lecce) at just 3 kms from the Cape of S.M. di Leuca, where the Ionian and the Adriatic Seas meet;
		If the archaelogical site of Vereto were given adequate importance with a program of systematic excavations and the implementation of the necessary facilities, it could be a strong helping hand to the improvement of the economic system of the "Basso Salento", aiming at creating a receptive area for high-cultural level tourism.
	www.puglia.org /patu/vereto1.html (270 words)

	Amazon.com: Messapian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Constructing Messapian Landscapes: Settlement Dynamics, Social Organization & Culture Contact in the Margins of Graecoroman Italy (Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology) by G. Burgers (Hardcover - April 1998)
		Messapian painted pottery: Analysis and provisory classification (Archeologische studieÌn van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome) by Douwe Geert Yntema (Unknown Binding - 1974)
		and 7,000 cavalry; Iapygians and Messapians, 5o,000 infantry and 16,ooo cavalry;...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Messapian&index=blended&page=1 (967 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Messapian (also known as Messapic) is an extinct Indo-European language of South-eastern Italy, once spoken in the regions of Apulia and Calabria.
		It was spoken by the three Iapygian tribes of the region: the Messapians, the Daunii and the Peucetii.
		The Messapian language became extinct after the Roman Empire conquered the region and assimilated the inhabitants.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Messapian_language (1059 words)

	Southern Italy Tour
		Salento is often quoted in epic poems such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid, and it is placed in the cradle of Western civilization.
		The collection of golden jewels in Taranto Municipal Museum, the proto-Corinthian vases and ceramics and the famous Messapian jars (trozzelle) that are in all museums of Salento, are reminders of Magna Grecia civilization.
		The Messapian people, called Sallentinii by the Romans, were not of Greek origin since they probably came from Dalmatia (still a region of today’s Croatia), but they were highly civilized as Strabone and Plinio, the two great historians, say.
	www.southernitalytour.com /history.htm (403 words)

	Messapian language (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Messapian (also known as "Messapic") is an extinct Indo-European language of South-Eastern Italy, in the regions of Apulia and Calabria.
		The language was preserved in about 260 inscriptions dating from the 6th to the 1st century BC.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Messapian_language (143 words)

	Messapian
		Besides Greek, spoken by the Greek colonists, Messapian was the major language of the ancient district of Messapia (now Apulia and Calabria) in southern Italy.
		A combination of ancient historical testimony tracing Messapian tribes to Illyria coupled with archaeological evidence for cross-Adriatic connections in ceramics and metalwork have prompted some linguists to link Messapian with Illyrian.
		The inscription from Vaste is one of the longest texts in the Messapian languages.
	users.tpg.com.au /etr/etrusk/po/messap.html (231 words)

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		Never have handicrafts been so «desired» as pottery now is. Just holding a florally decorated «trozzella» (Messapian vase) is enough to make you understand how much clay has been sedimented in the hearts and hands of this area.
		Terracotta takes on hundreds of forms on the pottery wheel; the ones to collect are those which magically imprison the wind within a whistle.
		When they went home in the evening like glow-worms they left a trail of gold dust behind them.
	www.pugliaturismo.com /aptlecce/inglese/artigianato.html (266 words)

	Messapian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A noun referring to the tongue of the ancient Messapians, the Messapian language.
		An adjective relating to the ancient Messapians or to ancient Messapia.
		If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
	www.governpub.com /Languages-M/Messapian.php (63 words)

	Greater Messapia Tickets, Discount Tickets and more - Greater Messapia Information - Greater Messapia Pictures and ...
		In ethnically diverse Elmhurst, the last Messapian family prepares for its only son Jan's wedding day.
		According to Messapian tradition, seventeen year old Jan Smith, a fan of Metallica and the New York Mets, must marry by the age of eighteen or face ritual beheading with an antique scimatar.
		Torn between his love for his non-Messapian girlfriend and responsibility to his race, Jan plans for a morally conflicted prom night....
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm?int_show_id=102717 (240 words)

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	m-w.com /dictionary/messapian (41 words)

	A New Ancient Map?
		The “Soleto Map” is, to date, the most ancient geographic map of classical antiquity to have been discovered.
		It thus demands a reconsideration not only of the beginnings of ancient cartography, but also of regional history, in particular that of relations between the Messapian Iapyges and the Greeks.
		— The “Soleto Map” and Messapian coinage (Aldo SICILIANO, Univ. Lecce)
	www.unc.edu /awmc/soletomap.html (941 words)

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