Bruttii

Bruttium is the old name for the landscape in the extreme south of the Italian boot, which coincides approximately with the present-day Calabria. Bounded on the north by the Lucania peninsula is washed by the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west and the Ionian Sea in the south and east. The Apennines covered the inland to the mountains of the Pollino, the Sila and Aspromonte. Cities were Consentia ( capital, today Cosenza), Croton, Sybaris, Hipponium, Rhegium, Locri Epizephyrioi, Scylacium and Medma. The inhabitants of the tract of land, the breeding animal ( Bruttii ) were supposed to have been renegade Lucanians and therefore got their name to have meaning in the language of "rebels".

The BC incurred in the coastal plains from the 8th century Greek poleis (see Magna Graecia ) and expanded in turn founded new colonial cities. In the interior, however, continued to live the breeding animal. Together with the Samnites, the further north inhabited the mountainous interior of Italy, conquered brut tables tribes in the early 3rd century BC, some of the Greek cities on the coasts. As allies of Pyrrhus but were finally defeated by the Romans, who then occupied large parts of Bruttium. During the Second Punic War ( 218-201 BC) were the breeding animal allies of Hannibal, and after its defeat lost their land finally its independence to the Roman Empire. A similar fate befell the Greek poleis. First, the brut diagram language disappeared, and later Greek became largely supplanted by the Latin. In the 6th century AD, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region eventually became part of the Byzantine Empire to the south of Italy should include several centuries. During this time, the Greek language spread again in the region.

In addition to southern Italian dialects, which are already counted in the extreme south to the Sicilian, and some Arbëresh Tosk dialects, Greek dialects are spoken in some smaller places today.

• Geography (Italy )
• History (Calabria )