ETRURIA: Was a region of central Italy, located in a area that covered part of what now are Umbria, Tuscany, Latium and Emilia-Romagna.

The ancient of ETRURIA are labelled Etruscans and their complex culture was centered on numerous city-states that rose during the Villanovan period in the ninth century BC.

The Etruscan civilization was responsible for much of the Greek culture imported into republican Rome, including the twelve Olympian gods, the growing of olive and grapes and architecture like the arch.