Roghudi, Gallicianò, Chorìo di Roghudi and Bova Marina) and four districts in the city of Reggio Calabria, but its population is significantly smaller, supposedly around 2000.? The Calabrian dialect of Greek, or Greek-Bovesian, is the variety of Italiot Greek used by the ethnic Griko people in Calabria, as opposed to the Italiot Greek dialect spoken in the Grecìa Salentina. The most important cultural transplant was the Chalcidean/Cumaean variety of the Greek alphabet, which was adopted by the Etruscans the Old Italic alphabet subsequently evolved into the Latin alphabet, which became the most widely used alphabet in the world.ĭuring the Early Middle Ages, new waves of Greeks came to Magna Graecia from Greece and Asia Minor, as Southern Italy remained governed by the Eastern Roman Empire.
With this colonization, Greek culture was exported to Italy, in its dialects of the Ancient Greek language, its religious rites and its traditions of the independent polis.Īn original Hellenic civilization soon developed, later interacting with the native Italic civilizations. The inhabitants of these lands called themselves Italioti and Siceliots and brought with them their Hellenic civilization, which was to leave a lasting imprint in Italy, particularly on the culture of ancient Rome. The colonists were led by a "ecista" a chosen leader, who before departure was sent to consult the Oracle Delphi (Delphi is both an archeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis), for instructions on where to found the new colony. Magna Græcia (Latin meaning "Great Greece", Greek: Μεγ?λη ?λλ?ς, Megál? Hellás) is the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy that were extensively colonized by Greek settlers particularly the Achaean colonies of Tarentum, Crotone, and Sybaris, but also, more loosely, the cities of Cumae and Neapolis to the north. Greek colonization in southern Italy involved the regions of Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania and Sicily. Also during this period, Greek colonies were established in places as widely separated as the eastern coast of the Black Sea, Eastern Libya and Massalia (Marseilles).
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