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VELIA (Gr. 'TEktl, later'EXfa)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 978 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VELIA (Gr. 'TEktl, later'EXfa) , an ancient town of Lucania, Italy, on the hill now crowned by the medieval castle of Castellammare della Bruca, 440 ft. above sea-level, on the S.W.
coast
 , 11 m. N.W. of the
modern
  railway station of Ascea, 25 M. S.E. of Paestum. Remains of the city walls, with traces of one gate and several towers, of a
total
  length of over 3 m., still exist, and belong to three different periods, in all of which the crystalline limestone of the locality is used. Bricks were also employed in later times; their form is
peculiar
  to this place, each having two rectangular channels on one side, and being about 15 in. square, with 'a thickness of nearly 4 in. They all
bear
  Greek brick-stamps. There are some remains of cisterns on the site, and various other traces of buildings. The town was mainly celebrated for the philosophers who bore its name (see ELEATIC ScxooL). About 530 B.C. the Phocaeans, driven from Corsica, seized it from the Oencrians. Its coins were widely diffused in S. Italy, and it kept its independence even in Roman times, and only became a municipiun after the Social War.
See W. Schlenning in Jahrbuck des K. Deutschen
Arch
 . Instituts (T889), iv. 169 sqq. (T. As.)


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