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Encyclopedia Britannica



AMERIA (mod. Amelia)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 805 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
AMERIA (mod. Amelia) , a city of Umbria, situated about 65 in, N. of Rome on the Via Amerina (which approached it from the S. starting from Falerii and passing through CastellumAmerinum, probably mod. Orte, where it crossed the Tiber). It has a fine position, 1332 ft. above sea-level, and still retains considerable remains of the city
wall
 , built in polygonal masonry of carefully jointed blocks of limestone, some 12 ft. in
total
  thickness, and showing traces of reconstruction at different periods. Various remains of the Roman period exist between the walls, including a large water reservoir divided into ten chambers. The lofty campanile of the
cathedral
  was erected in 1050 with fragments of Roman buildings.
Ameria
  is not mentioned in the history of the Roman conquest of Umbria, but is alluded to as a flourishing place, with a fertile territory extending to the Tiber, by Cicero in his speech in defence of Sextus Roscius Amerinus, and its fruit is often extolled by Roman writers.
Augustus
  divided its lands among his veterans, but did not plant a colony here. The bishopric of
Ameria
  was founded in the middle of the 4th
century
 .


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