Tyrrhenian Sea

The Tyrrhenian Sea is the part of the Mediterranean bounded by mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, named from the Greek word for the Etruscans. In antiquity it carried Etruscan, Greek and Carthaginian trade, and Greek colonies on the Ionian coast of southern Italy, such as Sybaris and Locri, founded outlets on it, among them Poseidonia and Hipponion, reached across the narrow Calabrian and Lucanian isthmuses.