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Lucanians
Lucania was an ancient region of S Italy. It was bounded on the east by the
Gulf of Tarentum and by Apulia, on the north by Samnium and Campania, on the west by the
Tyrrhenian Sea, and on the south by Bruttium. Italic tribes and Greek colonists
lived there before the Roman conquest in the third century BC. Their chief cities
were Heraclea and Metapontum on the Gulf of Tarentum and Paestum and Buxentum on
the Tyrrhenian coast. The non-Greek Lucanians were Samnites.
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