1) Ancient town of Italy 2) Colony of Magna Graecia
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Thurii (Θούριοι), called also by some Latin writers Thurium (compare Θούριον in Ptolemy), for a time also Copia and Copiae, was a city of Magna Graecia, situated on the Tarentine gulf, within a short distance of the site of Sybaris, whose place it may be considered as having taken. The ruins of the city can be found in the Sybaris ar...
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(from the article `Pericles`) As the building program continued, Pericles demonstrated Athenian superiority in other ways. In 443 a Panhellenic colony was founded under Athenian ... The Athenian-inspired Thurii project represented a fairly substantial mainland Greek encroachment on western soil; this and a mysterious Athenian ... [2 ...
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