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ALTINUM (mod. Altino)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 764 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALTINUM (mod. Altino) , an ancient town of Venetia, 12 M. S.E. of Tarvisium (Treviso), on the edge of the lagoons. It was probably only a small fishing
village
  until it became the point of junction of the Via Postumia and the Via Popillia (see AQUILEIA). At the end of the republic it was a municipium.
Augustus
  and his successors brought it into further importance as a point on the route between Italy and the north-eastern portions of the
empire
 . After the
foundation
  of the naval station at Ravenna, it became the practice to take ship from there to Altinum, instead of following the Via Popillia round the
coast
 , and thence to continue the journey by land. A new road, the Via Claudia Augusta, was constructed by the emperor
Claudius
  from Altinum to the
Danube
 , a distance of 350 m., apparently by way of the Lake of Constance. The place thus became of considerable strategic and commercial importance, and the comparatively mild climate (considering its northerly situation) led to the erection of villas which Martial (Epigr. iv. 25) compares with those of Baiae. It was destroyed by
Attila
  in A.D. 452, and its inhabitants took
refuge
  in the islands of the lagoons, forming settlements from which Venice eventually sprang.


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