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Volsinii or
Vulsinii (Etruscan:
Velzna or Velusna; Gr****: Ouolsinioi, Ὀυολσίνιοι; Ὀυολσίνιον), is the name of two
ancient cities of Etruria, one situated...
- (Vetulonium, Vetulonia)
Vipsul (Faesulae, Fiesole)
Velch (Vulci, Volci)
Velzna (Volsiniia, Volsinii)
There was a
period between 600 BC and 500 BC, during...
- Caisra, Clevsin, Curtun, Perusna, Pupluna, Veii, Tarchna, Vetluna, Volterra,
Velzna, and Velch. Some
modern authors include Rusellae. The
league was mostly...
- tradition. The
Romans called it
Lacus Volsinii,
adapting the
Etruscan name,
Velzna, of the last
Etruscan city to hold out
against Rome,
which was translocated...
- period, and
probably came from a
workshop in
Orvieto (Etruscan
Velzna,
Roman Volsinii).
Velzna was
known for its
bronze sculptures, more than 2,000 of which...
- po****ted
since Etruscan times, has
usually been ****ociated with
Etruscan Velzna, but some
modern scholars differ.
Orvieto was
certainly a
major centre of...
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Latin elegiac poet
Propertius writes of an
Etruscan god
taken to Rome from
Velzna (the town of Orvieto). That the
Fanum was
somewhere in
central Italy in...
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members of most
important league were:
Velch (Vulci),
Felathri (Volterra),
Velzna (Volsini), Veii (Veio),
Vetluna (Vetulonia),
Arretium (Arezzo), Perusna...
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constructed on the
Aventine Hill by 264 BC, the date when
Volsinii (Etruscan
Velzna) fell to the Romans. Propertius, the
major literary source for the god,...
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archaeologists in 1853. The city was
settled by the
Etruscans and
named Velzna,
later Felsina. In the 6th
century BCE,
Felsina was
known for its markets...
