This makes it clear that the Etruscan civilization is far prior to the Roman one, as evidenced by sixteenth/seventeenth-century historians, such as Thomas Dempster in his famous “De Etruria Regali” which documents over ten centuries of Etruscan history
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There has probably been a fortress on the hilltop overlooking Cortona since the 5th or 6th century BC, when the original Etruscan walls followed a course which roughly corresponds to the existing perimeter walls of today. However the first historical records describing a ‘strong and beautiful fortress’ date back to 1258 AD. Having been plundered and sacked several times during the wars with Arezzo it was sold to the Florentine Republic in 1411, together with the entire city of Cortona, although reconstruction work only began in 1527.
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