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{{Short description|City of Magna Graecia, situated on the Tarentine gulf}} {{redirect|Thurium|the city of ancient Acarnania, Greece|Thurium (Acarnania)}} {{Infobox ancient site |name = Thurii |native_name = Θούρῐοι (Thoúrioi) |alternate_name = Θούρῐον (Thoúrion), Thurium, Copia, Copiae |image = Sybaris archeological park 1.jpg |alt = |caption = Overview of excavated ruins, possibly from Thurii |map_type = Italy |map_alt = |map_size = |coordinates = {{coord|39|43|2|N|16|29|44|E|display=inline,title}} |location = [[Sibari]], [[Province of Cosenza]], [[Calabria]], [[Italy]] |region = [[Calabria|Bruttium]] |type = Settlement |part_of = |length = |width = |area = |height = |builder = |material = |built = |abandoned = |epochs = <!-- actually displays as "Periods" --> |cultures = |dependency_of = |occupants = |event = |excavations = |archaeologists = |condition = |ownership = |management = |public_access = |website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20140226183334/http://www.archeocalabria.beniculturali.it/archeovirtualtour/calabriaweb/sibari1.htm ArcheoCalabriaVirtual] {{in lang|it}} |notes = }} '''Thurii''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|θ|ʊər|i|aɪ}}; {{Langx|la|Thūriī}}; {{langx|grc|Θούρῐοι|Thoúrioi}}), called also by some [[Latin]] writers '''Thūrium''' (compare {{langx|grc|Θούρῐον|Thoúrion}}, in [[Ptolemy]]), and later in Roman times also '''Cōpia''' and '''Cōpiae''', was an ancient Greek city situated on the [[Gulf of Taranto]], near or on the site of the great renowned city of [[Sybaris]], whose place it may be considered as having taken. The ruins of the city can be found in the Sybaris archaeological park near [[Sibari]] in the [[Province of Cosenza]], [[Calabria]], [[Italy]].
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