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History
Basilicata spans Italy's instep with slivers of coastline touching the Tyrrhenian and Ionian
Seas. It was known to the Greeks and Romans as Lucania (a name still heard today) after
the Lucani tribe who lived here as far back as the 5th century BC. The Greeks also
prospered, settling along the coastline at Metapontum and Erakleia, but things started to
