The heartland of the etruscans was the territory between the arno and tiber rivers of italy.

The answer is central Italy. The heartland of the Etruscans was the zone between the Arno and Tiber rivers of central Italy that still bears their name - Tuscany. The beginning of the Etruscan people is not definite at all. Their linguistic, although transcribed in a Greek-derived script and existing in writings that are still in big part ambiguous, is unrelated to the Indo-European linguistic family. It is probable they were the result of a continuing fusion of native and immigrant populations. The mixing of peoples happened between the end of the Bronze Age and the so-called Villanovan era.

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