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AUGUSTA BAGIENNORUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 905 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTA BAGIENNORUM , the See also:chief See also:town of the Ligurian tribe of the Bagienni, probably identical with the See also:modern Bene Vagienna, on the upper course of the Tanaro, about 35 M. due See also:south of See also:Turin. The town retained its position as a tribal centre in the reorganization of See also:Augustus, whose name it bears, and was erected on a systematic See also:plan. Considerable remains of public buildings, constructed in See also:concrete faced with small stones with bands of See also:brick at intervals, an See also:amphitheatre with a See also:major See also:axis of 390 ft. and a See also:minor axis of 305 ft., a See also:theatre with a See also:stage 133 ft. in length, and near it the See also:foundations of what was probably a See also:basilica, an open space (no doubt the See also:forum), an See also:aqueduct, See also:baths, &c., have been discovered by See also:recent excavations, and also one of the See also:city See also:gates, flanked by two towers 22 ft. sq. See G. Assandria and G.Vacchetta in Notizie degli Scavi (1894), 155 ; (1896) , 215 ; (1897), 441; (1898), 299 ; (1900), 389 ; (1901), 413. (T.

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