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    Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata...
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    The Magna Græcia University of Catanzaro (Italian: Università degli studi Magna Græcia di Catanzaro) is a university located in Catanzaro, Italy. It was...
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    Museum of Magna Græcia in Reggio Calabria. Locrian pinakes represent one of the most significant categories of objects from Magna Graecia, both as documents...
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  • Siris (Greek: Σῖρις) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia (in modern Southern Italy), situated at the mouth of the river of the same name flowing into...
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    construction ceased both in Hellenistic Greece and in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia. Only the west of Asia Minor maintained a low level of temple construction...
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    city of Alexandropolis Maedica after defeating a local Thracian tribe. Magna Graecia was the name given by the Romans to the coastal areas of Southern Italy...
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    various Italic peoples (such as the Latins, Samnites, and Umbri), Celts, Magna Graecia colonists, and other ancient peoples have inhabited the Italian Peninsula...
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    colonies of Magna Graecia which had been allies of the Samnites. Although the commercial relationships between Rome and the centres of Magna Graecia are little...
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    was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples...
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    Iapygians, the Nuragic peoples (in Sardinia), the Greek colonisers in Magna Graecia, the Phoenician settlers in the islands, the Rhaetians, the Cisalpine...
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    Rhodes), as well as the colonies of some of those regions in Cyrene, Magna Graecia, the Black Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea. It was also spoken...
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    (Taganrog). To the west the coasts of Illyria, Southern Italy (called "Magna Graecia") were settled, followed by Southern France, Corsica, and even eastern...
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    Magna Graecia (Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς – Megálē Hellás) ancient colonies and dialects in the Classical Age (before Roman conquest)....
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    of writing derived from the Euboean alphabet, which was used in the Magna Graecia (coastal areas located in Southern Italy). The Etruscan language remains...
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    dozen Greek colonies along its coasts, becoming one of the centers of Magna Graecia. The Sicilian Wars of 580–265 BC were fought between the Carthaginians...
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    This is a list of ancient Greek theatres by location. Theatre of Dionysus, Athens Theatre of Thorikos, East Attica Odeon of Athens, Athens Theatre of Zea...
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    background dating back to the times of the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, in Southern Italy, the theatre of the Italic peoples and the theatre...
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    Griko people (category Magna Graecians)
    Ancient and Medieval Greek communities of southern Italy (the ancient Magna Graecia region), although there is dispute among scholars as to whether the...
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    modern Calabria (Italy). Early Pythagorean communities spread throughout Magna Graecia. Pythagoras' death and disputes about his teachings led to the development...
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    The traditional production of artistic ceramics dating back to the Magna Graecia period is handed down in the ancient towns of Squillace and Seminara...
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    and Apulia, especially the peninsula of Salento, within the ancient Magna Graecia region, who speak a distinctive dialect of Greek called Griko. They...
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    Samnites, Oscans, Sicels and Adriatic Veneti, as well as Greeks in Magna Graecia, Cisalpine Gauls and Iapygians) and pre-Indo-European speakers (Etruscans...
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    Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) describes the Roman conquest of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that...
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    the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse, a ruler of Syracuse, Sicily, Magna Graecia, during the classical Greek era. The anecdote apparently figured in...
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    the 8th century BC, the Greek colonists who created what was known as Magna Graecia used to build their buildings in their own style. They built bigger...
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    The Romans used to call the area of Sicily and coastal southern Italy Magna Graecia ("Great Greece") since it was so densely populated by coastal Greek...
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  • This article lists films set in ancient Greece, including Magna Graecia and Hellenistic kingdoms. Ancient Greece portal List of films set in ancient Rome...
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    Locri Epizefiri (category Roman towns and cities in Magna Grecia)
    town of Locri. It was one of the most culturally dazzling cities of Magna Graecia during the Greek Classical and Hellenistic periods and Plato described...
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    Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia. The Greek alphabet was altered by the Etruscans, and subsequently their...
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    Pythagoras (category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia)
    Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them...
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