Capua

Capua was established by the Etruscans as the centre of a Southern Etruscan League, though evidence suggests local Oscan tribes lived in the area prior to this Etruscan colonization in 600 BCE. Etruscan rule over Capua (or Capeva, as they called it) would fall in 424 BCE to the second major invasion of Campania by the Samnites, which would drive Capua to seek Roman protection.