(anc. geog.), one of the two peninsulas of Italy, the ancient Calabria being the other; stretching to the south towards Sicily; bounded by the sea on every side except by the isthmus, between the river Laus and the Thurii, where it is terminated by Lucania; inhabited by the Brutii, for whose country the ancient Romans had no peculiar name, calling both the people and the country indiscriminately Brutti. This and a part of Lucania was the ancient Italia, (Stephanus). It was called, Βρύτια, which in Greek signifies pitch, from the great quantity of it produced there, (Bochart). It is divided into two coasts by the Apennine; that on the Tuscan and that on the Ionian Sea. Now called Calabria Ultra. Different from the ancient Calabria or Messapia, to the east on the Adriatic or Ionian sea, and which formed the other peninsula or heel of the leg, now called Calabria Citra, the Brutii forming the foot.