Italics , who lived in modern-day Italy , were Indo-Europeans .
In addition to the various ancient peoples dispersed throughout modern-day Italy , the most famous of which being the Indo-European Italics who gave the peninsula its name , beginning from the classical era , Phoenicians and Carthaginians founded colonies in insular Italy and Genoa , Greeks established settlements in the so-called Magna Graecia , while Etruscans and Celts inhabited central and northern Italy .
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