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Category: Disambiguation Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was the legendary fifth King of Rome, said to have reigned from 616 BC to 579 BC. Tarquinius Priscus came from the Etruscan city of Tarquinii and was actually named Lucumo. ... Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (also called Tarquin the Proud or Tarquin II) was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and son-in-law of Servius Tullius. ...

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	The Tarquin Engine is a tool for the creation and delivery of zooming infinite canvas webcomics.
	Users should be comfortable in working with elements such as the timeline, layers, scenes and the symbols library.
	The Tarquin Engine and all related website content is copyright (c)2005, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.

AllRefer.com - Tarquin (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia (572 words)
	The romantic reason traditionally given for the deposition of Tarquin was the rape of Lucretia (see Lucrece) by his son Sextus Tarquinius.
	An army under Lars Porsena marched against the Romans, and Rome (contrary to Roman historical accounts) was forced to surrender and to yield a large amount of territory.
	The history of the Tarquins was probably distorted by anti-Etruscan propaganda among the Romans, who resented the Etruscan overlords dominant in Rome from the 8th to the 6th cent.

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