The Lucanians (Latin: Lucani) were an Italic tribe living in Lucania, in what is now southern Italy, who spoke the Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages. Today, the inhabitants of the Basilicata region are still called Lucani, and so is their dialect.

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It was the land of the Lucani, an Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in the north, Apulia in the east, and Bruttium in the south-west, and was at the tip of the peninsula which is now called Calabria.

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I Lucani furono una popolazione appartenente al ceppo italico e di lingua osca, che giunse, nel V secolo a.C., nella terra che da essi prese il nome di Lucania, territorio genericamente compreso tra i fiumi Sele, Bradano, Laos e Crati, fino ad allora chiamato dai Greci Enotria, dal nome del popolo abitante in precedenza la regione, gli Enotri.

The Lucani were a group of Italics who, during the Iron Age, were located in the modern region of Campania, on the western side of southern central Italy. They were neighboured by the Etruscans and by the Hirpini clan of the Samnites to the north, by the Iapyges to the east, the Oenotri and Chones to the south-east, and the Brutii to the south.

Lucania, ancient territorial division of southern Italy corresponding to most of the modern region of Basilicata, with much of the province of Salerno and part of that of Cosenza.Before its conquest by the Lucanians, a Samnite tribe, about the mid-5th century bc, it formed part of the Greek-dominated region of Oenotria.Recent discoveries of elaborately painted graves at …

The Lucani were allies of the Brutii living to their south and made war on colonies founded by Greeks. In about 400 b. c.e. the Lucani captured Paestum, a Greek city on the Gulf of Salerno (where elaborately painted Lucanian graves have been found).

According to another hypothesis, Lucania might be derived from Latin word lucus meaning "sacred wood" (cognate of lucere), or from Greek λύκος, lykos meaning "wolf".The Greco-Roman name Λουκᾶς (Lucas) originally designated a native of Lucania; among its bearers was Luke the Evangelist.History[edit]A mounted Lucani warrior, fresco ...

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