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TORTONA (anc. Dertona) , a town and episcopal see of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Alessandria, from which it is 14 M. E. by rail, on the right bank of the Scrivia, at the northern foot of the Apennines, 394 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (19or), 11,308 (town); 17,419 (commune). Tortona
Milan to Genoa; from it a main line runs to Alessandria, a branch to Castelnuovo Scrivia, and a steam tramway to Sale. Its fortifications were destroyed by the French after Marengo (1799); the ramparts are now turned into shadypromenades. The cathedral
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grain .Dertona, which may have become a Roman colony as early as the 2nd century B.C. and-certainly did so under Augustus
inscriptions and other objects have been found here. In the middle ages Tortona
Barbarossa
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