On one side of the canal Wedgwood built a large house, Etruria Hall and on the other side a factory.

Etruria Hall, the Wedgwood family home.

As well as Wedgwood's home, Etruria Hall, it included the Etruria Works which remained in use by the Wedgwood enterprise until 1950.

Etruria Hall was the site of the substantial invention of photography by Thomas Wedgwood in the 1790s.

Festival Park's large four-star Moat House hotel incorporates Etruria Hall, former home of Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Wedgwood.

Next to Etruria Hall is the North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce HQ.

Inscriptions on coins connect him with Falerii in Etruria and this may well have been his birthplace ; it has yielded many inscriptions relating to his mother's family, the Egnatii.

Otho belonged to an ancient and noble Etruscan family, descended from the princes of Etruria and settled at Ferentinum ( modern Ferento, near Viterbo ) in Etruria.

In Luxembourg, more senior members of the family have also been Royal Highnesses, but only due to their status as Princes of Bourbon-Parma ( itself an inconsistency as Parma was only ducal, but this family has male-line descent from kings of Etruria, Spain and France ).

According to Griffin, the family originally probably came from Etruria or the " area further east towards Illyria.

Gary Forsythe has conjectured that Piso's family came from the middle Tiber valley, on the border of Etruria and Sabine country, and that he was drawing on personal knowledge.

Sejanus was born in 20 BC at Volsinii, Etruria, to the family of Lucius Seius Strabo.

The daughter of a powerful Etruscan family in Tarquinii, Etruria, Tanaquil thought her husband would make a good leader, but since he was the son of an immigrant, he would not be able to gain power in Tarquinii, where they lived.

Initially, he lives in a small house on the Esquiline Hill in Rome with his family ; but he later inherits a farm in Etruria, then exchanges it for a house on the Palatine Hill, giving his older house to his son Eco.

He was a native of Volsinii in Etruria, from the distinguished family of the Rufii Festi.

From 1788 – 1789 he spent rather more than a year as private tutor in a Virginian family, and from 1791 till the close of 1792 he held a similar appointment at Etruria, Staffordshire, with the family of Josiah Wedgwood, employing his spare time in experimental research and in preparing a translation of Buffon's Natural History of Birds, which was published in nine volumes in 1793, which brought him money.

In 509 BC, after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the family of Tarquinius Superbus went into exile in Caere in Etruria.

Immediately afterward, he rushed home and the same night ostensibly complied with Cicero's demand and fled Rome under the pretext that he was going into voluntary exile at Massilia because of his " mistreatment " by the consul ; however, he arrived at Manlius ’ camp in Etruria to further his designs of revolution.

He proceeded to Etruria, relieved Claudius of his command and sent him home on the grounds that he was a do-nothing commander who had allowed his men to sit in camp without even the exercise of marches for patrols and training.

It was named after the Italian district of Etruria, home of the Etruscan people who were renowned for their artistic products.

Etruria is also home to The Sentinel, the local evening newspaper for the Stoke-on-Trent area.

Etruria is home to the Etruria Industrial Museum, a scheduled ancient monument, which includes a working steam engine called Princess.

At Etruria, he even built a village for his workers.

Six years before the complete opening of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1771, Wedgwood built the factory village of Etruria on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent, close to the canal.

He says that the pomerium was a tradition from Etruria, and that the Etruscans consecrated the area by augury which in part had the purpose of preventing houses from being built on the inside of the wall ( although he writes that in his time houses were in fact built against the wall ) and to keep the area on the outer side free from human occupation.

* 2 Kings of Etruria ( 1801 – 1807 )

* Etruria: Louis ( 1801 – 03 ), Charles Louis ( 1803 – 1807 )

Following this, the Villanovan culture ( 1100 – 700 BC ) saw Tuscany, and the rest of Etruria, taken over by chiefdoms.

He was proconsul in Picenum from 215 – 213 BC, and in 208 – 207 BC, as propraetor he held Etruria against Hannibal's younger brother Hasdrubal Barca.

* Roman tombs near Lorium, Etruria ( 1823 – 4 ).

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

In Etruria many stone doors are referred to by Dennis.

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria ( modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium ) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna ( where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls ).

Depictions of the dawn-goddess with a young lover became popular in Etruria in the fifth century, probably inspired by imported Greek vase-painting.

Arriving in Etruria in the spring of 217 BC, Hannibal decided to lure the main Roman army under Flaminius, into a pitched battle, by devastating the region Flaminius had been sent to protect.

An exception was in 217 BC, when a Carthaginian fleet of 70 quinqueremes was intercepted off the coast of Etruria by a Roman fleet of 120 quinqueremes and retreated without giving battle.

Etruria was conquered by Rome in the 3rd century BC.

Those who subscribe to an Italic foundation of Rome, followed by an Etruscan invasion, typically speak of an Etruscan “ influence ” on Roman culture ; that is, cultural objects that were adopted at Rome from neighbouring Etruria.

They were gradually assimilated first by Italics in the south, then by Celts in the north and finally in Etruria itself by the growing Roman Republic.

* Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, the book by George Dennis at LacusCurtius

In 1805, Lucca was conquered by Napoleon, who installed his sister Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi as " Queen of Etruria ".

Perugia was an Umbrian settlement but first appears in written history as Perusia, one of the 12 confederate cities of Etruria ; it was first mentioned in Q. Fabius Pictor's account, utilized by Livy, of the expedition carried out against the Etruscan league by Fabius Maximus Rullianus in 310 or 309 BC.

In his Geographica, Strabo refers to νεκρομαντία ( necyomanteis ), or " diviners by the dead ", as the foremost practitioners of divination amongst the people of Persia, and it is believed to have also been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea ( particularly the Sabians, or star-worshipers ), Etruria, and Babylonia.

The remnants of the rebels are wiped out by Gnaeus Pompeius in Etruria.

* The bacchanalia are wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus which are introduced into Rome from lower Italy by way of Etruria ( approximate date ).

Rome, buffered from Etruria by the Silva Ciminia, the Ciminian Forest, was influenced strongly by the Etruscans, with a series of Etruscan kings ruling at Rome until 509 BC when the last Etruscan king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was removed from power and the Roman Republic was established.

* Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, by George Dennis, an overview of Etruscan civilisation

He was forced to renounce his throne in 1801 by the Treaty of Aranjuez: Napoleon brushed him aside to make way for the Kingdom of Etruria, created as compensation for the Bourbon Dukes of Parma, being dispossessed by the Peace of Lunéville in that same year.