ocr: gulfs of Naples and Salerno. The city was founded sometime in the ninth or eighth century B.C.by the Oscan farmers of the region, who needed a marketplace and seaport. Because of its strategically important position, Pompeii became a prize in contests for control, not only among the Italic peoples but also among the migrating Greek popula- tion. In the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., the Etruscans of mid-Italy and the Greeks vied for rule of the area, and there are clear traces oftheir successive periods è of domination in the sequences of architecture inl Pompeii. Toward the end of the fift ...
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