{"slug": "lucania", "label": "Lucania", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucania", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1131978", "qid": "Q1131978", "description": "ancient district of southern Italy", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-298, 542], "span_label": ["299 BCE", "542 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "apulia", "label": "Apulia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "calabria", "label": "Calabria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "campania", "label": "Campania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "samnium", "label": "Samnium", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "march", "label": "March", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "southern-italy", "label": "Southern Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "benevento", "label": "Benevento", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "visigoths", "label": "Visigoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "picenum", "label": "Picenum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-roman-empire", "label": "Western Roman Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -298, "year_label": "299 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Samnites invade Lucania after the latter refuses to join them in alliance. The Lucanians suffer several defeats and lose multiple towns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1158554016#Roman_Republic", "title": "299 BC", "revid": 1158554016, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -215, "year_label": "216 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Following Hannibal's victory, many regions begin to defect from Rome, while others are conquered by Hannibal's forces. In Apulia, Lucania, Samnium and in Bruttium, Hannibal finds many supporters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336012311#Roman_Republic", "title": "216 BC", "revid": 1336012311, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -39, "year_label": "40 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sextus Pompey dispatches Menas with four legions and captures Sardinia, driving out Octavian's governor Marcus Lurius. He seizes the capital, Caralis and occupies Corsica. Sextus besieges Cosenza in Bruttium and Thurii in Lucania, ravaging the territory with his cavalry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267076849#Roman_Republic", "title": "40 BC", "revid": 1267076849, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 305, "year_label": "305 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Maximian retires from office, and leaves for Campania or Lucania (southern Italy), to live a life of ease in his luxury villas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330171757#Roman_Empire", "title": "305", "revid": 1330171757, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 413, "year_label": "413 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8 – Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366415001#Roman_Empire", "title": "413", "revid": 1366415001, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 461, "year_label": "461 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Libius Severus, Roman senator from Lucania, is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204937#Roman_Empire", "title": "461", "revid": 1349204937, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 542, "year_label": "542 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March", "text": "March – Totila bypasses Rome and begins his expedition in Southern Italy. He captures Beneventum and receives the submission of the provinces of Apulia, Lucania and Bruttium.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340799594#Europe", "title": "542", "revid": 1340799594, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}