Etruscan Volsinii (Velzna or Velusna; or sometimes…

Etruscan Volsinii (Velzna or Velusna; or sometimes in Latin Volsinii Veteres—Old Volsinii) appears to have been one of the most powerful cities of Etruria, the cult center of the god Voltumna, and is doubtless one of the twelve that formed the Etruscan confederation, as Volsinii is designated by Livy and Valerius Maximus as one of the capita Etruriae ("heads of Etruria").

It is described by Juvenal as seated among well-wooded hills.

Volsinii first appears in history after the fall of Veii (396 BCE).

The Volsinienses, in conjunction with the Salpinates, taking advantage of a famine and pestilence that has desolated Rome, make incursions into the Roman territory in 391 BCE.

They are defeated: eight thousand are made prisoners; but they purchase a twenty years' truce on condition of restoring the booty they had taken, and furnishing the pay of the Roman army for a year.