Ancient Italian Tribes — Etruscans
Click here to join our Facebook group The Etruscans are probably the most well known ancient tribe of the Italian Peninsula. They inhabited most of current day Tuscany and were a power long before Rome. It was originally believed that they were from Lydia on the Eastern coast of Turkey, however modern DNA testing now points to them being and indigenous people of Italy. It is also thought that they advanced quicker than other tribes