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TheItaliotes (Ancient Greek:Ἰταλιῶται,Italiōtai) were the pre-RomanGreek-speaking inhabitants of theItalian Peninsula, betweenNaples and Calabria.^{[citation needed]}

Greek colonisation of the coastal areas ofsouthern Italy and Sicily started in the 8th century BC and, by the time of the Roman ascendance, the area was so extensively hellenized that Romans called itMagna Graecia, that is "Greater Greece".

TheLatin alphabet is a derivative of theWestern Greek alphabet used by these settlers, and was picked up and adopted and modified first by theEtruscans and then by theRomans.^{[citation needed]}

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• A history of earliest Italy By Massimo Pallottino, 15 April 1991, Page 118ISBN 0-472-10097-1
• The Cambridge ancient history By John Boardman Page 709ISBN 0-521-85073-8
• Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC-AD 200 Page 103ISBN 0-415-05022-7
• Gender and ethnicity in ancient Italy By Tim Cornell, Kathryn Lomas Page 40ISBN 1-873415-14-1
• Calabria, the first Italy By Gertrude Elizabeth Taylor Slaughter Page 107

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