- The
Bruttians (alternative spelling, Brettii) (Latin: Bruttii) were an
ancient Italic people. They
inhabited the
southern extremity of Italy, from the...
- of
Rhegium to
plunder the
lands of the
Bruttians and to take Caulonia.
Hannibal went to the aid of the
Bruttians. On the
sixth day of the
siege it was...
- a Gr****
force led by
Alexander I of
Epirus against the
Lucanians and
Bruttians, two
southern Italic tribes. The
Italic army
soundly defeated the invading...
-
Agathocles then
invaded Italy (c. 300 BC) in
defense of
Tarentum against the
Bruttians and Romans, but was unsuccessful. Gr****s in pre-Roman Gaul were mostly...
- By this time
modern Calabria was
still known as Bruttium,
after the
Bruttians who
inhabited the region.
Later in the
seventh century AD, the Byzantine...
- was Venusia. In 282 BC,
after a
battle against the Samnites, Lucanians,
Bruttians and Thurii,
Roman troops entered the
Italian Gr****
colonies of Croton...
-
inexhaustible manpower.
After Fabius lured him away from
Apulia into the
Bruttian territory and then
proceeded to
besiege Tarentum by
treachery in 209 BC...
- was an
ancient Gr**** city of
Magna Graecia, on the west
coast of the
Bruttian (now Calabrian) peninsula,
between Hipponium and the
mouth of the Metaurus...
-
dates back to the pre-historic age.
Other archeological findings concern Bruttian graves. The
first encastellation can be
ascribed to the
Normans who built...
- of Thurii,
while the
continually increasing power of the
Lucanians and
Bruttians in
their immediate neighbourhood would prevent them from
quickly recovering...
