Campania was a region southeast of Latium.
Many different cities were built in this region. The Etruscans founded Capua. Several Greek cities were founded, including Cumae and Naples.
Campania
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Capua was a city located on the bank of Voltumus, 26 km north of Naples, Campania. It was founded by the Etruscans at the height of their power, around 600 BC.
Naples was a major port in Campania, founded by the Greeks around 600 BC, on the coast of the Bay of Naples. To the east is Mount Vesuvius. The city was called Neapolis, or "New City". To the west was Lake Avernus, and beyond that was Cumae , home...
Cumae was a major ancient port city in Campania, some 20 km west of Naples. The city was founded and colonised by the Greeks from Chalcís, a city on the island of Euboea, in the mid-8th century BC; perhaps the earliest to be colonised by the Greek...
The people who spoke the extinct Etruscan language were called Etruscans by the Romans, but Tyrrhenians or Tyrrenians by the Greeks. The sea was named after the Etruscans - the Tyrrhenian Sea. Their land was called Etruria, a region that comprised...
Samnium was the name of the region where the tribe known as the Samnites lived. The region was mountainous, in the Abruzzo mountains, east of Latium and north of Campania and Apulia. The Samnites were the largest group that spoke the Italic dialec...
The peninsula in the south of Italy that looks like the foot of a boot. Historically, many of the Greek cities were founded in this region, including Croton and Rhegion. Not much myth in this region. Perhaps the most notable was that Heracles trav...
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Ancient Latium corresponded to the geographical region of Lazio. The tribe of Italic people living in this area spoke the language of Latin, which included those living in the city of Rome . However, in classical mythology, Rome was not originally...
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