The Etruscans in 218 B.C.

The Etruscans — Roman Republic › Socii (Italic Allies).

The old Etruscan cities — the dwindled remnant of the legendary Twelve Peoples — sprawl across the hills between the Tiber and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Conquered city by city through the long wars of the 3rd century, Arretium, Clusium, Perusia and their neighbours are now bound to Rome by treaty, their nobles cultivating the lore of haruspicy and lending Rome the timber, grain and bronze of a rich Tyrrhenian land.