WITH THE IRON AGE ITALY AND HER POPULATION PRACTICALLY ENTE THE HISTORICAL PERIOD, EVEN IF SOME WHILE AFTER THE MORE ADVANCED EASTERN MEDITERREANEAN NAD NEAR EAST CIVILAZATIONS FROM WHERE ARRIVED PARTICULAR INFLUENCES. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST MILLENIUM BC THE FOLLOWING NATIVE TRIBES COULD BE DESTINGIUSHED ON ITALIAN TERRITORY: THE LINGURES, ON THE COAST THAT BEARS THEIR NAME, IN THE NORTHERN APENNINE VALLEYS, PART OF THE PRE-ALPINA VALLEYS AND THE WESTERN PO VALLEY; THE SICANI, IN THE INTERIOR OF SICILY;AND THE ITALI, IN THE PRESENT DAY CALABRIA(FROM WHOM COMES THE NAME "ITALY", WHICH WAS TO BE EXTENDED TO ALL THE TERRITORY OF THE PENINSULA). BESIDES THE ALREADY MENTIONED TERRAMARE TRIBE, ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE PO VALLEY, AND THE VILLANOVANS, PROBABLY FROM EASTERN EUROPE AND SETTLED THROUGHOUT CENTRAL ITALY, THERE WS ALSO THE UMBRIANS TO THE EAST OF THE UPPER BASIN OF THE TIBER. THE VENETI, WHO OCCUPIED THE TERRITORYTHAT STILL BEARS THEIR NAME, ORGINALLY CAME FROM ILLYRIA AS DIDI THE MESSAPII AND IAPYGES, WHO SETTLES IN PRESENT-DAY PUGLIA (APULIA)