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ALTINUM (mod. Altino)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALTINUM (mod. Altino) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Venetia, 12 M. S.E. of Tarvisium (Treviso), on the edge of the lagoons. It was probably only a small fishing See also:village until it became the point of junction of the Via See also:Postumia and the Via Popillia (see See also:AQUILEIA). At the end of the See also:republic it was a See also:municipium. See also:Augustus and his successors brought it into further importance as a point on the route between See also:Italy and the See also:north-eastern portions of the See also:empire. After the See also:foundation of the See also:naval station at See also:Ravenna, it became the practice to take See also:ship from there to Altinum, instead of following the Via Popillia See also:round the See also:coast, and thence to continue the See also:journey by See also:land. A new road, the Via Claudia See also:Augusta, was constructed by the See also:emperor See also:Claudius from Altinum to the See also:Danube, a distance of 350 m., apparently by way of the See also:Lake of See also:Constance. The See also:place thus became of considerable strategic and commercial importance, and the comparatively mild See also:climate (considering its northerly situation) led to the erection of villas which See also:Martial (Epigr. iv. 25) compares with those of Baiae. It was destroyed by See also:Attila in A.D. 452, and its inhabitants took See also:refuge in the islands of the lagoons, forming settlements from which See also:Venice eventually sprang.

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