Tyrrhenia

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Land areas around the Tyrrhenian Sea (Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy's west coast).
  2. 2
    Etruria.
  3. 3
    A large landmass in the western Mediterranean basin.

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etruria

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"Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia."

Etymology

Via Latin Tyrrhēnia from Ancient Greek Τυρρηνῐ́ᾱ (Turrhēnĭ́ā).

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tyrrhenian sea

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