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A long history

• Tuscia: origins and aethimology of the name

• Prehistory: from the pebbles to first villages
  The volcanic past, the actual rural landscape
  The man's history in the northern Latium
  The Aeneolitic period: first middle Italy culture
  The Bronze Age in Tuscia
  The Apeninic culture : a cultural unity of middle Italy
  The dawn of Etruscan people
  The Iron Age: The Villanovian culture and the Etruscans
  Different languages, same culture: Falisci and Etruschi

• The Etruscans: a "modern" people
  The origins of Etruscan people
  From villages to cities
  The Orientalizing period
  Trade: jewelry, ceramics, wine and slaves
  Archaeological Excavations, illegal diggers and tombs
  The Etruscan religion
  The everyday life
  A naval battle changes the Etruscan future

• Rome's expanding in Italy
  

• Medium Age period in Tuscia: Barbarians, Popes and Empereors
  The first medium age: Gotes and Byzantines
  From 6th to 8th century: Longobards and Francs
  Fiefs and Abbeys in medieval Tuscia
  Terror for the 1k year
  The development of Viterbo city
  Struggle between Papacy and Empire in Tuscia

• Renaissance in Tuscia
  The noble Families
  Pope's Nepotism in Tuscia
  A Pope and his son: the Ducate of Castro
  

• From Kingdom of Italy to present
  The Napoleonic Age
  The "Risorgimento"
  Bandits and outlaws
  The Tuscia from 1870 to Second World War