Etruria

[dnewhous]

After reading Britannica there are two salient facts about the Etruscans that are think are important.  One, they referred to the country they are in as "Etruria."  I've seen the word before on a map of the Roman Republic in the Oxford History of the Roman World.  I didn't know if it was the name the Etruscans used themselves or just what a historian called their territory.  It's about the size of a European Duchy.  Second, their original city in Italy is called "Villanova."

These facts are not covered in Herodotus's The Histories.

Edited November 3, 2020 by dnewhous

[guidoLaMoto]

"The Etruscans called themselves Rasenna, which was shortened to Rasna or Raśna (Neo-Etruscan), with both etymologies unknown.^[26][27][28]

In Attic Greek, the Etruscans were known as Tyrrhenians (Τυρρηνοί, Tyrrhēnoi, earlier Τυρσηνοί Tyrsēnoi),^[29] from which the Romans derived the names Tyrrhēnī, Tyrrhēnia (Etruria),^[30] and Mare Tyrrhēnum (Tyrrhenian Sea),^{[31][full citation needed]} prompting some to associate them with the Teresh (one of the Sea Peoples named by the Egyptians)."

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization  referencing Dionysius of Hallicarnassus