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Benevento (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 41 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 41.1333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 014 45 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 14.7500 decimal degrees |
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Elevation: |
| 442.913 feet |
135.0000 meters |
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Note: Located at confluence of Calore & Sabato rivers, on the site of Beneventum; founded by Samnites; later was important Roman town on Appian Way & base for their expansion in S Italy; destroyed by Totila the Ostrogoth in 452 CE; ruled by Lombards, Byzantines (11th cen.) & then pope. |
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| Benevento (preferred,C,V)
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| Beneventum (H,V)
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............ | renamed by the Romans, exchanging "male" ("bad") for the positive "bene" ("good") |
| Colonia Iulia Concordia Augusta Felix Beneventum (H,V)
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| Maleventum (H,V)
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| Malies (H,V)
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............ | name of original Oscan (Samnite) town |
| Maloenton (H,V)
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| Maluentum Maleventum (H,V)
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Campania (region (administrative division)) (P) |
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Benevento (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded by ancient Samnites, later became an important Roman center; has often been damaged by earthquakes & in WW II |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| agricultural center (C) |
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for wheat, grapes, vegetables & olives |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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produces almond cakes, Strega liquer, almond cakes chocolate, cookies, wine, agricultural machinery, bricks & matches |
| archaeological site (C) |
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has Roman ruins, including a theater, bridge & Trajan's Arch (from AD 114) |
| battlefield (H) |
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where Romans defeated Pyrrhus, King of Epirus in 275 BC ; where Charles I of Anjou defeated the Hohenstaufen Manfred, King of Naples & Sicily in 1266 |
| capital (H) |
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of Oscan people after their defeat by Romans in 314 BC; of Lombard duchy, from 571 |
| Samnite (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| located on .... |
Via Latina .......... (road) |
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(World, Europe, Italy) [6006328] |
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