# Visentium

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'''Visentium''' (also spelled '''Bisentium''', Italian ''Bisenzio''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans|last=Stoddart|first=Simon K. F.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2009|isbn=9780810854710|location=Lanham, MD|pages=24}}</ref>''')''' was the Latin name of one of the minor [Etruscan cities](/source/Etruscan_cities). It was a boundary settlement on the southwestern shore of the [Lago di Bolsena](/source/Lago_di_Bolsena)<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Etruscan Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|last=De Puma|first=Richard Daniel|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|year=2013|isbn=9781588394859|location=New York|pages=40}}</ref> and was settled from the Final [Bronze Age](/source/Bronze_Age) until the [Archaic period](/source/Classical_antiquity).<ref name=":0" />

The [Etruscan](/source/Etruscan_language) name for Visentium was '''Vesnth''', or '''Vishnth'''. It was called Visentium after the settlement was conquered by the Romans in 280 B.C.<ref name=":1" /> During the Classical period, it fell under the orbit of the city of [Tarquinia](/source/Tarquinia).<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Catalogue of the Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|authorlink1=Jean MacIntosh Turfa|last=Turfa|first=Jean MacIntosh|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=2011|isbn=978-1931707527|location=Philadelphia, PA|pages=5}}</ref> The artifacts such as urns and other grave goods excavated from its various [necropoleis](/source/Necropolis) are said to indicate its importance during the [Iron Age](/source/Iron_Age) and the [Orientalizing period](/source/Orientalizing_period).<ref name=":2" /> These provided insights on the settlers' dwellings and perishable belongings, which augmented their pottery and metal works.<ref name=":2" /> The artifacts, particularly, the bronze objects also suggest that Visentium was influenced by [Vulci](/source/Vulci).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Medical Biology and Etruscan Origins|last1=Wolstenholme|first1=G. E. W.|last2=O'Connor|first2=Cecilia M.|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2009|isbn=9780470714935|location=London|pages=20}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
The Italianized 'modern' form [Bisenzio](/source/Bisenzio_(disambiguation)) gave its name to:
* a [Tuscan](/source/Tuscany) river, the [Bisenzio](/source/Bisenzio_(river));
* a medieval Latin bishopric, which soon was renamed [Roman Catholic Diocese of Castro del Lazio](/source/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Castro_del_Lazio).

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