Potentia (Macerata, Italy : Extinct city)
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found: Work cat.: 2001421879: Potentia, 2001(Roman city and colony in the Agro Picenum [a Roman region] founded ca. 184 B.C. and located at the mouth of the Potenza River [ancient name, Flosis] on the Adriatic, in vicinity of modern-day Porto Recananti in Macerata Province, Marche; a thriving city during the 1st and 2nd cents. A.D., cited in numerous sources, Potentia declined irreversibly under Lombard rule and ceased to exist by the high Middle Ages, if not before)
found: Princeton encyc. classic. sites:p. 734 (Potentia (Santa Maria a Potenza) Macerata, Marche; near the abbey in the district of Portorecananti are remains of a Roman colony derived from Picenum in 184 B.C. ... on the left bank of the ancient mouth of the Potenza river; Potentia flourished in the Imperial period and was an early Christian diocesan seat; it disappeared in the Middle Ages)
found: Harper's dict. classic. lit.:p. 1305 (Potentia: (1) a town of Picenum, on the river Flosis. (2) a town of Lucania [i.e., present-day city of Potenza in Basilicata]
notfound: Ox. classic. dict. [cites only the Potentia in Lucania]
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2006-04-18: new
2006-06-22: revised
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