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Achaean colonies of Magna Graecia

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Crotone
Crotone (; ; or ) is a city and comune in Calabria, Italy.
Paestum
Paestum ( , , ) was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric order dating from about 550 to 450 BCE that are in an excellent state of preservation. The city walls and amphitheatre are largely intact, and the bottom of the walls of many other structures remain, as well as paved roads. The site is open to the public, and there is a modern national museum within it, which also contains the finds from the associated Greek site of Foce del Sele.
Casabona
Casabona (Calabrian: ) is a comune and town with a population of about 4,000 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, southern Italy.
Gulf of Salerno
gulf of the Tyrrhenian Sea
Sybaris
Sybaris (; ) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy.
Metapontum
Metapontum or Metapontium () was an ancient city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus (modern Basento). It was distant about 20 km from Heraclea and 40 from Tarentum. The ruins of Metapontum are located in the frazione of Metaponto, in the comune of Bernalda, in the Province of Matera, Basilicata region, southern Italy.
Heraclea Lucania
ancient city of Magna Graecia
Caulonia
archaeological site in Italy
Terina
ancient Greek city in Calabria
Laüs
thumb|Stater of Laus with man-headed bull, c. 490-470 BC