- Tyrrhēnum (Tyrrhenian Sea). The
ancient Romans referred to the
Etruscans as the
Tuscī or Etruscī (singular Tuscus).
Their Roman name is the
origin of the terms...
- Τύρσα, it has been
connected with the
ethnonym Τυρρήνιοι as well as with
Tusci (from *Turs-ci), the Gr**** and
Latin names for the
Etruscans (Kretschmer...
- The
Villa of
Pliny in
Tuscis was a large,
elaborate ancient Roman villa-estate that
belonged to the
Plinys (Pliny the
Elder and
Pliny the Younger). It...
- "Mediterranean" loan into Gr****,
meaning "tower".
Direct connections with
Tuscī, the
Latin exonym for the Etruscans, from *Turs-ci, have also been attempted...
-
Ptolemy Geography iii.1.50
lists this form of the name as a city
among the
Tusci.
Antonine Itinerary;
Tabula Peutingeriana. Ihne,
Wilhelm (1871). The history...
- even now
bears the name of the
Etruscan civilization,
Tuscany (from
Latin tuscī 'Etruscans'), as well as in
modern Latium north of Rome, in today's Umbria...
-
Etruscans in the
North and the Gr****s in the south. The
Etruscans (Etrusci or
Tusci in Latin) are
attested north of Rome in
Etruria (modern
northern Lazio,...
-
within close vicinity to a city; and the
villa rustica (Pliny's
villa in
Tuscis), a
farmhouse estate usually ****ociated with small-scale
agriculture or...
- and the Aegean)
before "Orientalization" occurred. The
Etruscans (Latin:
Tusci)
created the
first major civilization in this region,
large enough to establish...
- Pliny's main
estate in
Italy and the one he
loved best was his
Villa "in
Tuscis" near San Giustino, Umbria,
under the p****es of
Bocca Trabaria and Bocca...
