Etruscan civilization - Spina was an Etruscan port city

Time: 7th Century BC

Place: Spinea, Venice, Italy

Details: Spina was an Etruscan port city on the Adriatic at the ancient mouth of the Po, south of the lagoon which would become the site of Venice. Spina may have had a Hellenised indigenous population.

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