 The institution of kingship was general.Many names of individual Etruscan kings are recorded, most of them in a historical vacuum, but with enough chronological evidence to show that kingship persisted in Etruscan city-culture long after it had been overthrown by the Greeks and at Rome, where Etruscan kings were long remembered with suspicion and scorn.When the last king was appointed, at Veii, the other Etruscan cities were alienated, permitting the Romans to destroy Veii.