Caere
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- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Cerveteri
- Official language
- Etruscan
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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- Commons category
- Cerveteri
- member of
- Etruscan Dodecapolis
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Ancient bishopric
- Archaeological site
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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Caere (also Caisra and Cisra) is the Latin name given by the Romans to one of the larger cities of southern Etruria, the modern Cerveteri, approximately 50–60 kilometres north-northwest of Rome. To the Etruscans it was known as Cisra, to the Greeks as Agylla and to the Phoenicians as 𐤊𐤉𐤔𐤓𐤉𐤀 ().
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caere” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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