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Veii
Veii

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Where in the world

Italy

The site

Veii was an Etruscan city set on the southern edge of Etruria, just north-northwest of Rome and occupied from around 900 to 396 BCE. It ranked as the richest city of the Etruscan League, alternately at war and in alliance with early Rome for more than three centuries. That long rivalry ended at the Battle of Veii in 396 BCE, when the general Camillus captured the city, which lay thereafter within Rome's orbit.

Field notes

civilizations
Etruscan
types
City
occupied
900 BCE — 396 BCE
country
Italy

Figures of this place

Laid to rest, born or died at Veii

Quintus Fabius Vibulanus
Quintus Fabius Vibulanusdied hereconsul of the Roman Republic in 485 BC and 482 BC
V
Vulcaborn hereEtruscan sculptor

Monuments & structures

What stands within Veii

PortonaccioMuseum of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Portonaccio

Chronicle

What happened at Veii

  1. 479 BCEBattle of Veii
  2. 474 BCEBattle of Veii

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