What is Oenotrians?

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The Oenotrians (the tribe of Oenotrus) were an ancient Italic people who settled a territory of remarkably large dimensions, including the region of Apulia, Basilicata and the northern part of the region of Calabria in southern Italy.

The Oenotrians arrived there at the beginning of the Iron Age (11th century BC) from Illyria through the Otranto Channel together with other people of the same ethnic group. According to Antoninus Liberalis, their arrival triggered the migration of the Elymians to Sicily. The settlement of the Greeks with the first stable colonies, such as Metapontum, founded on a native one (Metabon), pushed the Oenotrians inland. From these positions a "wear and tear war" was started off with the Greek colonies, which they plundered more than once. From the 5th century BC onwards, they disappeared under the pressure of the Sabellian people.

A possible derivation of the ethnonym "Oenotrian" would be the Greek "oinos" (wine), as the Oenotrians inhabited a territory rich in vinyards, with "Oenotria" being extended to refer to the entirety of Southern Italy.
In Greek mythology, Oenotrus was the son of Lycaon. He lived in Italy. The Southern Pass (Oenotria) was named after him.
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Ancient Italic peoples are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Roman domination. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnically closely related.
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Regione Puglia


Map highlighting the location of Puglia in Italy

Capital Bari
President Nichi Vendola
(PRC-Union)
Provinces Bari
Brindisi
Foggia
Lecce
Taranto
Comuni 258
Area 19,366 km
 - Ranked 7th (6.
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Regione Basilicata


Map highlighting the location of Basilicata in Italy

Capital Potenza
President Vito De Filippo
(DL-Union)
Provinces Matera
Potenza
Comuni 131
Area 9,995 km
 - Ranked 14th (3.
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Regione Calabria


Map highlighting the location of Calabria in Italy

Capital Catanzaro
President Agazio Loiero
(PDM-Union)
Provinces Catanzaro
Cosenza
Crotone
Reggio Calabria
Vibo Valentia
Comuni 409
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Anthem
Il Canto degli Italiani
(also known as Fratelli d'Italia)


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Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent. The adoption of this material coincided with other changes in some past societies often including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs
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Illyria (Albanian Iliria Ancient Greek Ἰλλυρία; Latin Illyria [1] (see also Illyricum)
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Antoninus Liberalis was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300.

His only surviving work is the Metamorphoses, (Μεταμορφώσεων
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Elymians (Greek Elymoi, Latin Elymi) were an ancient people who inhabited the western part of Sicily during the Bronze Age and Classical antiquity.

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Regione Autonoma Siciliana


Map highlighting the location of Sicilia in Italy

Capital Palermo
President Salvatore Cuffaro
(UDC-CdL)
Provinces Agrigento
Caltanissetta
Catania
Enna
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The term ancient Greece refers to the periods of Greek history in Classical Antiquity, lasting ca. 750 BC[1] (the archaic period) to 146 BC (the Roman conquest). It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western Civilization.
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Metapontum or Metapontium (Greek: Μεταπόντιον: Thuc., Strab., and all Greek writers have this form; the Latins almost universally Metapontum), was an important city of Magna
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The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC.

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This century sees the beginning of a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations, particularly the Greeks which would continue all the way through the
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The Osco-Umbrian languages or Sabellic languages are a group of languages that belong to the Italic language family of the Indo-European languages. They were spoken in central and southern Italy before Latin replaced them as the power of the Romans expanded.
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An ethnonym (Gk. έθνος ethnos, 'tribe', + όνομα onoma, 'name') is the name of an ethnic group, whether that name has been assigned by another group (i.e., an exonym), or self-assigned (i.e.
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Greek 
Writing system: Greek alphabet 
Official status
Official language of:  Greece
 Cyprus
 European Union
recognised as minority language in parts of:
 European Union
 Italy
 Turkey
Regulated by:
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Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermentation of grape juice.[1] The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients.
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vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture.
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Southern Italy

Regional statistics
Largest city Naples
Regions of Italy Apulia, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Sardinia and Sicily
Area
 - Total
47,504 mi² (123,036 km²)

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