Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría

Francesco Lopez (1970), University of Pisa (Italy), is a Ph.D. of History of Science at that university (2014) and a specialist in Linguistics and Classical Philology. He has published monographs and many articles on ancient medicine, including Democede di Crotone e Udjahorresnet di Saïs (Pisa University Press, 2015).

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Kalabria, from Messapia to the Land of the Bruttii1 Kalabria, Iapygia, and Messapia in the Hellenistic Period2 The Indigenous Origin of the Kalabroí and Salentinoi Ethnonyms3 Two Ethnic Denominations, but a Single Choronym4 Iapygian Presences in Pre-Hellenic Krotoniatis5 Administrative Scructure from Augustus to Justinianus6 Migration from the Salento Peninsula to the Land of Bruttii2 Corresponding Denominations in Antiquity1 The Kalabros River on an Ancient Temesa Painting2 The Island of Kalauria and the Cult of Poseidon3 Balkan Area between Dardania, Illyria, and Thrace4 An Etruscan Inscription from Volsinii, Orvieto5 Kalauria Nymph and Ganges River in India6 Kalauria Site near Syracuse in Sicily7 A Spurious Epigraph concerning the Lokroi Kalabroi3 Corresponding Denominations in the Byzantine Period1 The Thracian Fortress of Kalabrye and the River Halmyros2 The Hinterland of Sēlymbria and the Modern District of Silivri3 Natural Environment and Local Traditions4 Similar Toponyms according to the Landscape4 Kalabria, for the Scholars of Ancient History1 An Indigenous or Greek Choronym for Messapia2 An Insulting Denomination, Created by Tarentini3 An Indigenous Denomination Transformed into an Insult5 The Root *Kar-/ *Kal- and the Toponymic Appellative Bria/ Uria1 Kalabroí as the ‘Inhabitants of the Rocks’2 The Complexity of the Pre-Hellenic *Kala- Toponymic Base3 The Root *Kar-/ *Kal- as ‘Stone’ and ‘Water-Carved Stone’4 The Pre-Hellenic Toponymic Appellative Bria/ Uria6 Water-Carved Soil and Creeks from Messapia to Krotoniatis1 Kalabria and the Karst Phenomena in the Salento Peninsula2 From the Gargano Peninsula to the Carso Region3 The Balkans and Thracian-Illyrian Area4 Aegean, Minoan, and Mycenaean Areas5 Kallipolis and Kalauria: A Possible Toponymic Symmetry6 Messapia and Krotoniatis Region Mirroring7 Several Krotoniatis Place-Names Based on *Kar-/ *Kal- Root8 The Water-Carved Soil as Kroton Identity9 Creeks and Natural Harbours by an ‘Ionian’ Perspective10 The Trans-Ionian Route of the ‘White Shining Rocks’ConclusionAppendix: Greek and Latin SourcesBibliography