The Rise of Marseilles: France's Oldest City
The Ancients
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The Etruscan Side, the Ionic Greek Alphabet.
Archaeology suggests that it's a multi ethnic society. The major etruscan coastal centers were actually just off the coast, and they had port cities to handle the trade with the water mediterranean. In places like graviscim or gravisca, we evidence ofo carthaginians, greeks, et cetera. There was actually a port called punicum which betrays the fact that there were certainly a lot of phoenicians coming and going there. We do know that greek artisans settled throughout atruria through both epigraphy as well as literary evidence.
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