Confederation of the Bruttians
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Was the confederation of the cities of the Bruttians, a population that inhabitated Calabria (Italy).
Establishment
January 389 BC: In less than a century, the Bretti formed themselves into numerous small villages a few kilometers away from each other, interspersed with strongholds called oppida, fortified urban nuclei, in which the highest social classes gathered (warriors, magistrates and, yes think, priests) to make decisions for the management and defense of neighboring villages. Coins were minted and the social fabric began to take shape with the consolidation of social classes. The Confoederatio Bruttiorum was born. This probably happened after the victory over the Turii, near Laus, in 390.
Chronology
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January 269 BC: The Bretti were now recognized as a small power on the rise. Their prerogative was to continue to develop as an autonomous and conquering civilization and this drove them to hostility towards Rome. In 270 BC. the territory of the Brettii had completely fallen under the dominion of the Romans.
January 354 BC: When the Bruttians arose as a new ethnic group in Lucania in 356/5 BC their first target was Terina.
January 332 BC: When Alexander of Epirus arrived in Southern Italy in approximately 333 BC he took the city from the Bruttians.
January 330 BC: Alexander of Epirus did not possess the city of Terina for long because he was defeated by a combined army of Bruttians and Lucanians at the Battle of Pandosia in 331 BC.
January 299 BC: Between the middle of the 4th and the middle of the 3rd century BC, the Bruttians attacked and conquered various Magna Graecia cities, including, on the Tyrrhenian side, Themesa and Terina, Hipponion (present-day Vibo Valentia), and on the Ionian side even the mythical Sybaris.
Disestablishment
January 269 BC: The Bretti were now recognized as a small power on the rise. Their prerogative was to continue to develop as an autonomous and conquering civilization and this drove them to hostility towards Rome. In 270 BC. the territory of the Brettii had completely fallen under the dominion of the Romans.
