MANDURIA

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MANDURIA , a city of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Lecce, from which it is 27 M. W. by road (22 m. E. of Taranto), 270 ft. above sea-level, and 8 m. N. of the

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

. Pop. (1901), 12,199 (town); 13,190 (commune). It is close to the site of the ancient Manduria, considerable remains of the defences of which can still be seen; they consisted of a

double

line of

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

built of rectangular blocks of stone, without mortar, and with a broad ditch in front. Some tombs with gold ornaments were found in 1886 (L.

Viola

VIOLA [Fr. viole, Ger. Bratsche, Ital. viola, alto]

in Notizie degli Scavi, 1886, loo). It was an important stronghold of the

Messapii

MESSAPII

against Tarentum, and Archidamus III., king of

Sparta

SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

, fell beneath its walls in 338 B.C., while leading the army of the latter (Plut., Agis, 3, calls the place Mandonion: see s.v. ARCHIDAMUS). It revolted to Hannibal, but was stormed by the Romans in 209 B.C. Pliny mentions a

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

here which never changed its level, and may still be seen. The town was destroyed by the Saracens in the loth

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

; the inhabitants settled themselves on the site of the present town, at first called Casalnuovo, which resumed the old name in 1700. (T. As.)

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