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AESERNIA (mod. Isernia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 276 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AESERNIA (mod. Isernia) , a Samnite See also:town on the road from Beneventum to See also:Corfinium, 58 m. to the See also:north-See also:east of the former, at the junction of a road going past See also:Venafrum to the Via See also:Latina. These routes are all followed by See also:modern railways—the lines to See also:Campobasso, See also:Sulmona and Caianello. A See also:Roman See also:colony was established there in 263 B.C. It became the headquarters of the See also:Italian revolt after the loss of Corfinium, and was only recovered by See also:Sulla at the end of the See also:war, in 8o B.c. Remains of its fortifica-tions are still preserved—massive cyclopean walls, which serve as See also:foundation to the walls of the modern town and of a Roman See also:bridge, and the subterranean channel of an See also:aqueduct, cut in the See also:rock, and dating from Roman times.

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