Bruttium

Bruttium, nowadays known as Calabria, was the southernmost region of the Italian mainland and Apennine Mountain Range, bordered by Lucania to the north and the island of Sicily across a narrow strait to the southwest.

Like Lucania, Bruttium was originally inhabited by the Oenotrians, a people of uncertain origin, and began receiving Greek colonies from the 8th Century BC on, making it a part of Magna Graecia. In the 4th Century, a Sabellic people known as the Bruttii split off from the Lucani further north and migrated southwards into Bruttium, assimilating the remainder of the local Oenotrian tribes and conquering several of the Greek colonies on the coast. The Romans gained control of the area in the early 3rd Century BC after the Pyrrhic War, though the Bruttii attempted to revolt in the late 3rd Century BC by defecting to Hannibal during the 2nd Punic War.

Factions

 * Bruttii
 * Sybaris (replaced by Thurii in the Pyrrhus Campaign, though all their cities start off as occupied by Rome)
 * Kroton
 * Locris
 * Rhegion

Cities

 * Vergae
 * Bescia
 * Cosentia
 * Clampetia
 * Castiglione
 * Krimisa
 * Aprustum
 * Kroton
 * Terina
 * Scylletium
 * Kaulonia
 * Hipponion
 * Medma
 * Locris
 * Taurania
 * Rhegion
 * Palizzi