{"slug": "lucanians", "label": "Lucanians", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucanians", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1264391", "qid": "Q1264391", "description": "Italic tribe living in Lucania", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-386, -81], "span_label": ["387 BCE", "82 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "taranto", "label": "Taranto", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "crotone", "label": "Crotone", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "samnites", "label": "Samnites", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dionysius-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius I of Syracuse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adriatic", "label": "Adriatic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thurii", "label": "Thurii", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samnium", "label": "Samnium", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "calabria", "label": "Calabria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -386, "year_label": "387 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "With the aid of the Lucanians, Dionysius I of Syracuse devastates the territories of Thurii, Crotone, and Locri in mainland Italy. When Rhegium falls, Dionysius becomes the chief power in Greek Southern Italy. He then turns his attention to the Adriatic and founds the colonies of Ancona (Ankon) and Adria (Adrìa).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650579#Sicily_and_Adriatic", "title": "387 BC", "revid": 1367650579, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily and Adriatic"}}, {"year": -342, "year_label": "343 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The native Italian tribes, the Lucanians and Bruttians, press down upon the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, including Tarentum. Responding to calls for help from these former Greek colonies, King Archidamus III of Sparta sets sail with a band of mercenaries for Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172730#Italy", "title": "343 BC", "revid": 1354172730, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -333, "year_label": "334 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Alexander of Epirus, at the request of the colony of Taras (Tarentum) crosses over into Italy, to aid them against the Lucanians and Bruttii. He wins victories over the Italian Samnite tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356615565#Italy", "title": "334 BC", "revid": 1356615565, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -331, "year_label": "332 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "After a victory over the Samnites and Lucanians near Paestum, Alexander of Epirus makes a treaty with the Romans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322067290#Italy", "title": "332 BC", "revid": 1322067290, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -330, "year_label": "331 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Alexander of Epirus takes Heraclea from the Lucanians, and Terina and Sipontum from the Bruttii.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210205718#Italy", "title": "331 BC", "revid": 1210205718, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The citizens of Tarentum seek the help of the Spartan general, Cleonymus. He is able to pacify the Lucanians with the agreement of the Romans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Italy", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -279, "year_label": "280 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Responding to an appeal from Tarentum, King Pyrrhus of Epirus uses his army of over 20,000 men against the Romans. In the Battle of Heraclea he defeats a Roman army led by consul Publius Valerius Laevinus. Pyrrhus's judicious use of his elephants plays a large part in his victory. Several tribes including the Lucani, Bruttii and the Messapians as well as the Greek cities of Crotone and Locri join Pyrrhus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338748993#Roman_Republic", "title": "280 BC", "revid": 1338748993, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -276, "year_label": "277 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Consul Publius Cornelius Rufinus campaigns against the Lucanians and the Bruttians and captures Crotone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1256058749#Italy", "title": "277 BC", "revid": 1256058749, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -273, "year_label": "274 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Romans under Manius Curius Dentatus conquer the Lucanians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367769282#Roman_Republic", "title": "274 BC", "revid": 1367769282, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -269, "year_label": "270 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rome's subjugation of Italy is completed by the recapture of Rhegium (southern Italy) from the Mamertines and the defeat of the Brutians, the Lucanians, the Calabrians and the Samnites. The town of Rhegium is then restored by the Romans to its Greek inhabitants.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317756359#Roman_Republic", "title": "270 BC", "revid": 1317756359, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -81, "year_label": "82 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1: Sulla defeats an army of Samnites and Lucanians alliance in the Battle of the Colline Gate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262234047#Roman_Republic", "title": "82 BC", "revid": 1262234047, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}