Civita Castellana (Italy)
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Civita Castellana, Italy
Falerii Veteres (Italy)
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found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 42°17ʹ43ʺN 012°24ʹ33ʺE)
found: Falerii Veteres: il sepolcreto di Montarano, 2022:p. 5 (Montarano, ancient necropolis of Falerii Veteres)
found: Wikipedia, 6 December 2022(Falerii Veteres, now Civita Castellana, was one of the chief cities of the duodecim populi of ancient Etruria); following a revolt by the Faliscan tribe in around 241 BC, the Romans resettled the population of Falerii Veteres at Falerii Novi)
found: Wikipedia, 6 December 2022:under Civita Castellana (Civita Castellana is a town and comune in the province of Viterbo, 40 miles north of Rome; Civita Castellana was settled during the Iron Age by the Italic people of the Falisci, who called it "Falerii"; after the Faliscan defeat against the Romans, a new city was built by the latter, about 5 kilometres away, called "Falerii Novi"; the abandoned city was repopulated in the early Middle Ages, with the new name of Civita Castellana (roughly translated as "City of the Castle") mentioned first in 994; in the following centuries the city was a flourishing independent commune)
found: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical sites online, 6 December 2022(Falerii Veteres (Civita Castellana) Italy)
found: Encyclopedia Britannica online, 6 December 2022(Civita Castellana, town, Lazio (Latium) region, central Italy; Civita Castellana stands on the site of the 9th-century-BC Falerii Veteres ("Old Falerii"), the capital of the Faliscans)
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1982-05-17: new
2022-12-07: revised
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