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Originally Posted by svin
I visited Tuscany in summer. Is it considered to be part of N. Italy? I didn't get impression that it was southern European country (or eastern, if we agree with Mynydd that division of Italy is more west-east, than north-south). I was expecting France to look like that.
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Many tuscans overlap with northern italians, believe me.
Don't forget that the invading gauls destroyed large etruscan presence in Aemilia and southern Lombardy.
Chronicles speak of something of an ethnic cleansing by the Gauls but reality as we know is probably different.