Tuscia

Tuscia, Tuscia also, in Latin and Italian Tuscia, is a landscape in central Italy. It comprises roughly the present-day Tuscany, the northern part of Lazio and the western part of Umbria. In ancient times was called the Etruria region, the land of the Etruscans.

Tuscia was annexed by Rome in 351 BC in its entirety and formed as Etruria, one of the eleven regions, had divided into the Augustus Italy. It corresponded approximately to the present-day Tuscany, north-western Umbria and northern Lazio with the Tiber as a southern border. Thus were also separated by the river from the city of Roman suburbs, such as Trastevere, to her. In the further course of the imperial period gradually replaced the name " Tuscia " the name " Etruria ". Beginning of the 4th century, the area under the Emperor Constantine was united with the province of Umbria " Tuscia et Umbria ", this was at least up to the year 400 Ammianus Marcellinus makes a distinction between the southern Tuscia Tuscia suburbicaria and the northern Annonaria, the Arno River the border formed.

In the early Middle Ages, Byzantium, the Lombards and the Pope at Canossa quarreled. The Pippi 's donation of the Pope received a southern part, about the scope of the present province of Viterbo. The northern part was to margraviate of Tuscany, together with Lombardy and the Margraviate of Verona, the Kingdom of Italy was formed German nation in the Holy Roman Empire under the Hohenstaufen. After the Hohenstaufen, the region was divided into the cities reigns of Lucca, Pisa, Florence and Siena.

From the old name of Tuscia, the name of today's Tuscany region derives, which occupies approximately the northern two-thirds of the landscape.

The southern third has retained as the name of Tuscia countryside. The province is named after its capital city of Viterbo. The name of Tuscia is still used in daily life. Thus, for example, was founded in 1979 called the State University of Tuscia Viterbo University.