Bruttium


Bruttium - a historical land in ancient Italy located in the southern part of the Apennine Peninsula, extending along the Messina Strait.

Inhabited by the Brutts, who organized themselves into a confederation of cities with the capital of Cosentia. In the 4th century BC. Brutom was able to defend against Alexander of Epirus and Agatokles of Syracuse. On the coasts the land was heavily colonized by the Greeks and together with Lukania, Calabria and Apulia was an antiquity part of the so- Great Greece.

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