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Encyclopedia Britannica



ORIA

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 269 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
ORIA , a town of Apulia,
Italy
 , in the province of Lecce, 25 M. E. of Taranto and 19 m. S.W. of
Brindisi
  by
rail
 , 540 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (Igor), 8838. It occupies the site of the ancient Uria, the
chief
  town of the Sallentini, which stood in a commanding position in the centre of the peninsula of the ancient
Calabria
  (q.v.), almost midway between Brundusium and Tarentum on the Via
Appia
 .
Strabo
  mentions that he saw there the old palace of the Messapian kings (vi. 3. 6, p. 282). The town contains a small museum and a fine
castle
  of Frederick II., erected in 1227. The Doria family of Genoa and Rome is said to derive its name from a certain Tommaso d'Oria, who led the rebellion against Frederick's son Manfred. Much damage was done by a cyclone in 1878.


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