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The Etruscans referred to themselves as rasna or raśna. This self-designation is confirmed by Etruscan inscriptions and is also recorded as Rasenna by the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus.12
While the term Etruscan is derived from the names used by the Romans (Etrusci or Tusci), and the Greeks identified them as Tyrsenoi or Tyrrhenoi, the name rasna remains the authentic term used by the people themselves to identify their culture and society.12