Ancient history

Lucania | ancient region, Italy

Lucania , old territorial division Southern Italy, common to most of the modern region of Basilica matches , with much of the province Salerno and a part of the province Cosenza . Before its conquest by the Lucanians, a Samni tribe, around mid-5th century v . Ch. , War it is part of the Greek-dominated Oenotria region. Recent discoveries of ornately painted tombs in Paestum , a city conquered by the Lucanians around 400 AD, suggest that the root in the 4th century v . Ch. A Culture of great vitality and distinction. Although they are allied 298 in Rome were the Lucanians in Pyrrhic War (280–275), in Second Punic War (218–201) and in the Social War (90–88) against that power and were made by that power defeated. The founding of a series of colonies by Roman citizens on confiscated lands in the late 2nd and early 1st centuries v . Ch. Led to population growth and prosperity in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. In the 3rd century ad , economic and social problems brought about the region's decline.