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The Italiotes (Greek: Ἰταλιῶται, Italiōtai) were the pre-Roman Greek-speaking inhabitants of the Italian Peninsula, between Naples and Calabria.[citation needed]
Greek colonisation of the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily started in the 8th century BC and, by the time of the Roman ascendance, the area was so extensively hellenized that Romans called it Magna Graecia, that is "Greater Greece".
The Latin alphabet is a derivative of the Western Greek alphabet used by these settlers, and was picked up and adopted and modified first by the Etruscans and then by the Romans.[citation needed]
The Italiotes (Greek: Ἰταλιῶται, Italiōtai) were the pre-Roman Greek-speaking inhabitants of the Italian Peninsula, between Naples and Calabria.[citation...
The Italiote League of city-states was founded in about 430 BC by several Greek Achaean colonies in southern Italy. This region of Italiotes (Italian Greek-speakers)...
the mother country. The ancient inhabitants of Magna Graecia are called Italiotes and Siceliotes. Remains of some of these Greek cities can be seen today...
Ancient Greeks of the Italian peninsula included, Achaeans Dorians Ionians Italiotes Siceliotes Iapygians or Apulians (possibly related to Illyrians) - Centered...
Siceliotes (the descendants of Greek settlers) and the non-Greek inhabitants of Sicily. Compare Italiotes and Sicels. Greek coinage of Italy and Sicily v t e...
Greek coinage of Italy and Sicily originated from local Italiotes and Siceliotes who formed numerous city states. These Hellenistic communities descended...
The Ksour Essef cuirass decorated with low reliefs, a 3rd century BC Italiote cuirass breastplate armor found in a Carthaginian tomb near Ksour Essef,...
history describes Trajan as "an Iberian and neither an Italian nor even an Italiote", but this claim is contradicted by other ancient sources and rejected...
were ethnically linked to Italians through links with the prehistoric Italiotes, Illyrian and Roman populations and that the major influence exerted by...
were ethnically linked to Italians through links with the prehistoric Italiotes, Illyrian and Roman populations and that the major influence exerted by...
integrating with the pre-existing peoples, referred to themselves as Italiotes, that is, inhabitants of Italy. This group of Italian people had worshiped...
Italians through an ethnic heritage due to links between the prehistoric Italiotes, Roman and Illyrian populations, and they also claimed that the major...
masters of at least a third of it. He carried out an expedition against the Italiote League in 387 BC in southern Italy. In one campaign, in which he was joined...
poleis. Croton then experienced a period of decline. Around this time the Italiote league was founded to defend itself from the expansionist aims of Syracuse...
York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-78800-0. Wonder, John W. (2012). "The Italiote League: South Italian Alliances of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC"....
due to Greek influence. Ancient peoples of Italy Ancient Italic peoples Italiotes Prehistoric Italy Siceliotes Sea Peoples Sicani Fox, Travelling Heroes...
formed to fight the Achaemenid Empire. Chalcidian League 430 - 348 BC Italiote league 430 - 278 BC A confederation of Greek Colonies in Southern Italy...
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