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NOLA , a city and episcopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, pleasantly situated in the plain between Mount
Vesuvius
inscriptions relating to a treaty with Nola regarding a joint temple of Hercules. Two fairs are held in Nola, on the 14th of June and the 12th of November; and the 26th of July is devoted to a great festival in honour of St Paulinus, one of the early bishops of the city, who invented the church bell (campana, taking its name from Campania). The church erected by him in honour of St Felix
Nola (NO^a) was one of the oldest cities of Campania, variously said to have been founded by the Ausones, the Chalcidians and the Etruscans. The last-named were certainly in Nola about 500 B.C. At the time when it sent assistance to Neapolis against the Roman invasion (328 B.C.) it was probably occupied by Oscans in alliance with the Samnites. The Romans made themselves masters of Nola in 313 B.C., and it was thenceforth faithful to Rome. In the Second Punic War it thrice bade defiance to Hannibal; but in the Social War it was betrayed into the hands of the Samnites, who kept possession till Marius, with whom they had sided, was defeated by Sulla, who in 8o B.C. subjected it with the rest of Samnium. Seven years later it was stormed by Spartacus. Whatever punishment Sulla may have inflicted, Nola, though it lost much of its importance, remained a municipium with its own institutions and the use of the Oscan NOLLEKENS, JOSEPH (17371823) British sculptor, was born language. It became a Roman colony under Augustus
died at Nola. Sacked by Genseric in 455, and by the Saracens in 8o6 and 904, captured by Manfred in the 13th century, and damaged by earthquakes in the 15th and 16th, Nola lost much of its importance. The revolution of 1820 under General Pepe began at Nola. The sculptor Giovanni Marliano was a native of the city; and some of his works are preserved in the cathedral. Nola lay on the Via Popillia from Capua
series of coins, and in luxury it vied with Capua
pale yellow clay with shining black glaze, and they are decorated with skilfully drawn
Augustus
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