Etruria definition

ĭ-tro͝orē-ə
An ancient country of west-central Italy in present-day Tuscany and parts of Umbria. It was the center of the Etruscan civilization, which spread throughout much of Italy before being supplanted by Rome in the third century bc .
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(place) Ancient country (fl. 6th cent. b.c.) occupying what is now Tuscany & part of Umbria in WC Italy.
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(historical) An ancient country located between the Arno and Tiber rivers, corresponding to modern day Tuscany in Western Italy; the home of Etruscans.
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Etruria Sentence Examples

  • On his death in 1802 the duchies were incorporated with the French republic and his son Louis became "king of Etruria."

  • The ancient Perusia first appears in history as one of the twelve confederate cities of Etruria.

  • The existing seven were first published in a careful but largely mistaken transcript by Buonarotti in 1724, as an appendix to Dempster's De Etruria Regali.

  • The Magra (Macra), in ancient times the boundary between Liguria and Etruria, may be considered as constituting on this side the limit of Northern Italy.

  • Except, therefore, for a very small and apparently isolated area in the north of Latium and south of Etruria, all the tribes of Italy, though their idioms differed in certain particulars, are left undiscriminated.

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