Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

ALLIA (mod. Fosso Bettina)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 695 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
» Make a correction to this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

ALLIA (mod. Fosso Bettina) , a small tributary of the See also:river See also:Tiber, joining it on the See also:left (See also:east) See also:bank, about 11 m. N. of See also:Rome. It gave its name to the terrible defeat which the See also:Romans suffered at the hands of the Gauls on the 18th of See also:July 390 B.C. See also:Livy (v. 37) and Diodorus (v. 114) differ with regard to the site of the See also:battle, the former putting it on the left, the latter on the right bank of the Tiber. See also:Mommsen and others support Diodorus, but the question still remains open. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, iii. 24.

End of Article: ALLIA (mod. Fosso Bettina)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
ALLEYN, EDWARD (1566-1626) 		[next]
ALLIA, PIERRE (1641-1717)

Site © 2006 - Net Industries