Falerii Veteres, now

Civita Castellana Civita Castellana is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Viterbo, north of Rome. Mount Soracte lies about to the south-east. History Civita Castellana was settled during the Iron Age by the Italic people of the Falisci, who called it "F ...

, was one of the chief cities of the ''duodecim populi'' of ancient Etruria. The site is about 2 km west of the course of the Via Flaminia, some 50 km north of

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. The legendary foundation of the site has been linked to colonists coming from

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. The people of the area, the Faliscans, spoke a language that was distinct from that of the Etruscans. Following a revolt by the Faliscan tribe in around 241 BC, the Romans resettled the population of Falerii Veteres at

Falerii Novi Falerii Novi (English: New Falerii) was a walled town in the Tiber River valley, about north of Rome and west of Civita Castellana. History According to Polybius and Livy, the Falisci people of Falerii Veteres revolted against the Roman Republ ...

, a less defensible location.

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* {{cite web , url=http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413126 , title=Places: 413126 (Falerii Veteres) , author=Harris, W. , author2=R. Talbert , author3=T. Elliott , author4=S. Gillies , publisher=Pleiades Etruscan cities