ETRURIA, et-rh'-ri-a, or TUSCIA, a country of central Italy, bounded N. and N. W. by the Apennines and the Macra, W. by the Tyrrhene sea, and E. and S. by the Tiber. Its inhabitants were called Tyrrheni by the Greeks, and by the Ro mans Etrusci, and the ancients believed they were a colony from Lydia ; but from their name Rizase'ners, among themselves they are now believed to have been a Rhmtian race that descended from the Alps and mingled with the earlier immigrants, the Tyrrheni proper. They were early powerful, and, inheriting by conquest the culture of the Tyrrheni and the Umbri, highly cultivated. They attained to great commercial prosperity, and ruled over the greater part of Italy, from the Alps and the plains of Lombardy to Vesu vius and the gulf of Sarento. They formed a great confederacy of twelve independent cities, Cortona, A rrellum, Clusinm, Perusi.z, Volaterra, Vetulania, Rusella, Tarquinei, Valera, ell, and Care (anciently I Agylla), the annual meeting of the Luau manes, or governing families ecclesiastical and civil, of the sovereign states being held every spring at the temple of Voltumna near Volsinu. The power of Etruria •.vas gradually
reduced by the encroachments of the Gauls in the north, and the Sabines, Samnites, and Greeks in the south, and after a pro longed struggle with Rome they were sub !ugated by the victory of Cornelius Dolabella, 283 B.C.
Eu AGORAS, ett-tie-5/"-a3. 2. King of Cyprus, retook Salamis, which had been taken from his father by the Persians. He was de feated by Artaxerxes and made tributary, and soon after assassinated by an B.C. a. Son of Nicocles, and grandson of was deposed by his uncle Protagoras, and fled to Artaxerxes Ochus, who gave him a satrapy, but afterwards put him to death for op pression.