Ancient Italic people settled in a territory of remarkably big dimensions including today's southern Italian region of Basilicata and the northern part of Calabria. The Oenotrians came there at the beginning of the Iron Age (XI century BC) from Illyria through the Otranto Channel together with other people of the same ethnical group (the Oscan-Umbrians). According to Antoninus Liberalis their arrival triggered the migration of the Elymians to Sicily. The settlement of the Greeks with the first stable colonies such as Metaponto, founded on a native one (Metabon), pushed the Oenotrians into the inland. From these positions a "wear and tear war" was started off with the Greek colonies, that they could plunder more than once. From the V century onwards they disappeared under the pressure of the Sabellian people. The term "Oenotrian" comes perhaps from Greek "oinos" (wine) that, rather than for the people, was significant for the territory rich in wineyards (Oenotria=land of the wine, often referred to all of Southern Italy). Italic can refer to: Italic languages Italic scripts Italic means Of or from Italy; the usage is most commonly restricted to talking about the people and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire. ... Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Puglia to the east, Calabria to the south, it has one short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ... Calabria, formerly Brutium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... In classical history, Illyria or Illyricum or Illyrikon was a region in the western part of todays Balkan Peninsula inhabited by the tribes and clans of Illyrians, an ancient people who probably spoke an Indo-European language (the Illyrian languages). ... Antoninus Liberalis, Greek grammarian, probably flourished about AD 150. ... The Elymian people (Greek Elymoi, Latin Elymi) were an ancient civilization located in Sicily. ... Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... Metaponoto is in Basilicata, Italy // Get in There is a bus to Matera (1h, E4), train to Sibari (1h15min,E3. ...