Etruria in a sentence

Road widening measures had recently begun on Marina Way to open up access to the park, where the sculpture stood, as part of changes following major infrastructure works and the opening of the Etruria Valley Link Road in January.

The brown tourist sign is on the A53 at Etruria and directs people to the former Wedgwood and Doulton Outlet.

The building has had many uses since The Sentinel moved its HQ from Hanley to Etruria.

And following the second arrest he made homophobic comments to a police officer at the Northern Area Custody Facility in Etruria.

Advancing through the uplands of Etruria, the Carthaginian now provoked Flaminius into a hasty pursuit without proper reconnaissance.

Arriving in Etruria, still in the spring of 217 BC, Hannibal tried without success to draw the main Roman army under Flaminius into a pitched battle by devastating the area the latter had been sent to protect.

As compensation, Charles Louis, the former king of Etruria, was made the Duke of Lucca.

Early Rome, in its conquest of Italy, assimilated the people of Etruria by replacing the Etruscan language with Latin, which led to the demise of that language and many aspects of Etruscan civilization.

However, when Octavian returned to the city with his army, the pair was forced to retreat to Perusia in Etruria.

In Etruria many stone doors are referred to by Dennis.

Moreover, road traffic could be controlled, since Rome was at the intersection of the principal roads to the sea coming from Sabinum (in the northeast) and Etruria (to the northwest).

Polybius, Histories, Book III, p74 He arrived in Etruria in the spring of 217 BC and decided to lure the main Roman army under Flaminius into a pitched battle by devastating the region that Flaminius had been sent to protect.

Robertson pp. 200-201 * Falerii Veteres ( Etruria ): A temple of Apollo was built probably in the 4th-3rd century B.C. Parts of a teraccotta capital, and a teraccotta base have been found.

The Chiusa sword comes from Romanized Etruria; thus, regardless of the names of the forms (which the authors do not identify), the authors believe the process was continuous from the Etruscans to the Romans.

The factory was so-named after the Etruria district of Italy, where black porcelain dating to Etruscan times was being excavated.

The few roads outside the early city were Etruscan and went mainly to Etruria.

There the king established a series of annual games; according to Livy, the first horses and boxers to participate were brought from Etruria.

The topic of the "League of Etruria" is covered in Freeman, pp. 562–565.

They were gradually assimilated first by Italics in the south, then by Celts in the north and finally in Etruria itself by the growing Roman Republic.

This is the heart of the Etruscan Empire (many would debate that the heart of the Etruscan Empire was actually in the Maremma Laziale, in an area also known as the Tuscia, where Tarquinia was "the chief of the twelve cities of Etruria".