This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

episode 29

The Battle of Cany. Oh, Can he was an ancient village quite close to the east coast of the Italian peninsula.

It would have been south of the Carapellee River in the modern Italian region of Apulia.

This area of Italy may well have been settled or visited by Mycenaean Greeks during the Second Millennium

B.C. E.

However, the Mycenaeans disappeared in the late second millennium

B.C. and then there was a general dark age

where we don't really have a great deal of evidence

about what was going on. We do believe that this area of the Italian

peninsula was occupied by a people's called the Yepagians who were Indo-European migrants to the region where they

dispersed into three separate groups. There was the Downians to the north, the Mesapians to the south, and the Puchetzians in the central

area, which is the area where the village of Cany can be found.

It is very difficult for historians to understand this area of the Italian Peninsula before its Roman conquest

as there is very little evidence to go by and we almost rely on later texts to give us

indications as to what was going on.

Inscriptions discovered from before this time have led linguists to determine that the

Yepadians spoke a type of Indo-European languages

which have been named Mesopic languages.

The Yepagians are believed to have migrated across the Adriatic Sea from Illyria, very late

in the second millennium B.C. E. at a similar time to the downturn in Mycenae. a millennium

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