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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 479 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBA , a See also:

town and episcopal see of See also:Piedmont, See also:Italy, on the See also:river Tanaro, in the See also:province of See also:Cuneo. From the town of the same name it is 33 M. N.E. See also:direct; it is 42 M. S.S.E. of See also:Turin by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 13,900. It contains a See also:fine See also:cathedral, with a See also:Gothic See also:facade, reconstructed in 1486, and is an important commercial centre. It occupies the site of the See also:ancient Alba Pompeia, probably founded by Pompeius See also:Strabo (See also:consul 89 B.c.) when he constructed the road from See also:Aquae Statiellae (See also:Acqui) to See also:Augusta Taurinorum (Turin). Probably this was the road taken by Decimus See also:Brutus when he succeeded, after the raising of the See also:siege of Mutina in 43 B.C., in occupying See also:Pollentia just before See also:Mark Antony's See also:cavalry came in sight. Alba was the birthplace of the See also:emperor See also:Pertinax. It became an episcopal see dependent on See also:Milan in the 4th See also:century. A small museum of See also:local antiquities was established in 1897.

See F. Eusebio in Atti del Congresso Internazionale di Scienze Storiche (See also:

Rome, 1904), vol. V. p. 485.

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