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Rasenna

Rasenna

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Rasenna

  1. The Etruscans, collectively.
    • 1898, Walter Wybergh How, ‎Henry Devenish Leigh, A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar, pages 12 and 79:
      The Rasenna were to the Romans a foreign nation speaking an unknown tongue.
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      The cities of the Rasenna in Campania, whose communications with the mother country, whether by land or sea, were not cut of, surrendered [] .
    • 2013, Fred Kleiner, Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective:
      The Etruscan people of historical times—the Rasenna—were very likely the result of a gradual fusion of native and immigrant populations.