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 | | Contrarily, Dionysius of Halicarnassus ca 100 BC pronounced that the Etruscans were indigenous to Italy, calling themself Rasenna and being part of an ancient nation which does not resemble any other people in their language or in their way of life, or customs.... |
 | | Their first attempts failed, though, because the areas they wanted to control were already under the rule of many powerful warrior tribes, and they Etruscans were forced to expand northwards towards the Italian Alps.... |
 | | In the valley of the Po, where the Celts effaced their traces, stood the Etruscan cities that are now modern Mantua and Bologna, as well as the lost cities of Atria in Veneto and the recently-rediscovered Spina see link, south of the lagoon where Venice would rise.... |
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