Etruscan cities

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Of several Etruscan leagues, the Dodecapolis (Greek for "twelve cities") of the Etruscan civilization is legendary amongst Roman authors, particularly Livy.Livy VII.21 However the dodecapolis had no fixed roster and if a city was removed it was immediately replaced by another.George Dennis, the Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. London, Appendix to Chapter I, Note IV. Available at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Periods/Roman/Archaic/Etruscan/_Texts/DENETR*/home.html

By the time the dodecapolis had sprung into the light of history, the Etruscan cities to the north had been assimilated by invasions of the Celts, and those of the south by infiltration of the Italics.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

Etruscan cities were autonomous states, but they were linked in the dodecapolis and had a federal sanctuary at the Fanum Voltumnae near Volsinii.{{cite book|last=Cary|first=M.|author2=H.H. Scullard|title=A History of Rome|page=25|edition=3rd|year=1979|isbn=0-312-38395-9}}

The table below lists Etruscan cities most often included in the Dodecapolis as well as other cities for which there is any substantial evidence that they were once inhabited by Etruscans in any capacity. Roman and Italian names are given, but they are not necessarily etymologically related. For sources and etymologies (if any) refer to the linked articles.The Bonfantes (2002) pages 222-223 have published a good overall list.{{col-begin}}

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• {{cite book|author1=Bonfante, G.|author1-link=Giuliano Bonfante |author2=L. Bonfante|author2-link=Larissa Bonfante |title=The Etruscan Language. An Introduction|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=2002}}
• {{cite book|author=Dennis, George |author-link=George Dennis (explorer) | title=The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria |url=https://archive.org/details/citiesandcemete03denngoog | year=1848 | publisher=John Murray | location=London}} Available in the Gazetteer of Bill Thayer's Website at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Periods/Roman/Archaic/Etruscan/_Texts/DENETR*/home.html]

• Dennis, George. 1883. The cities and cemeteries of Etruria. 2nd ed. London: John Murray.
• De Puma, Richard D., and J. Penny Small, eds. 1994. Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and society in ancient Etruria. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Drago Troccoli, Luciana. 2006. Cerveteri. Rome: Libreria dello Stato.
• Hall, John F., ed. 1996. Etruscan Italy: Etruscan influences on the civilizations of Italy from antiquity to the modern era. Provo, UT: Museum of Art, Brigham Young University.
• Haynes, Sybille. 2000. Etruscan civilization: A cultural history. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
• Leighton, Robert. 2004. Tarquinia: An Etruscan city. London: Duckworth.
• Phillips, Kyle M., Jr. 1993. In the hills of Tuscany: Recent excavations at the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Siena). Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
• Riccioni, Giuliana. 1979. "Vulci: A topographical and cultural survey." In Italy before the Romans: The Iron Age, Orientalizing, and Etruscan periods. Edited by David Ridgway and Francesca R. Ridgway, 241–76. London and New York: Academic Press.
• Turfa, Jean MacIntosh, ed. 2013. The Etruscan World. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

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• [http://www.itamerensuomi.net/etno/it_Etruscan_Leagues.pdf Names of the member-cities of the Etruscan Leagues (c. 750–270 BC) in Etruscan and Italian]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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