The Enotrians were the first inhabitants of Brucia, according to the name given by the classical Greek authors, who make them of pelasgic origin. The eats and the morgetes were tribes of this town. They were the town that inhabited the region when the first Greek settlers arrived and founded Crotona (710 BC) and then Locros and Regio.
The term enotrio is probably derived from the Greek word οἶνος (oinós), which came from Greek, which was indicative of the territory rich in vineyards rather than the town. From this term derived the one of Enotria (land of the wine) with which the Greeks indicated the southern Italy. There is also a further hypothesis that refers to the method of cultivating the vine, which unlike other regions, did not come "maritata" but cultivated in short wood (Greek "oinotron") The Enotrians appeared in Italy at the beginning of the Iron Age (XIth century BC) along with other populations called protolatines (Siculo, Faliscos, Latinos). The colonization of the Greeks confined the Enotrians to the interior. From these positions they began an infinite war with the colonies of Magna Grecia that often proceeded to loot.
They were dominated at the end of the fifth century a. C. and early fourth century a. C. by the sabélico town of lucanos, and the nootrios were condemned to the slavery; but in the middle of the fourth century a. The Enotrians, together with young Lucanians, rebelled, and from the mixture between Lucanians and Enotrians came the people of the Brutus.
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