Listed 4 sub titles with search on: The inhabitants for wider area of: "CROTONE Province CALABRIA" .
PETELIA (Ancient city) CALABRIA
A Pelasgian people, one of the three peoples which
inhabited Epirus, were at an earlier period in possession of the whole of the
country, but subsequently dwelt along the coast from the river Thyamis to the
Acroceraunian promontory, which district was therefore called Chaonia. By the
poets, Chaonius is used as equivalent to Epiroticus (Epeirotikos).
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Chaones
(Patelia) has so strong a position by nature that the Samnitae once fortified it against the Thurii.
KROTON (Ancient city) CALABRIA
The city is reputed to have cultivated warfare and athletics; at any rate, in one Olympian festival the seven men who took the lead over all others in the stadium-race were all Crotoniates, and therefore the saying "The last of the Crotoniates was the first among all other Greeks" seems reasonable. And this, it is said, is what gave rise to the other proverb, "more healthful than Croton," the belief being that the place contains something that tends to health and bodily vigor, to judge by the multitude of its athletes. Accordingly, it had a very large number of Olympic victors
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