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BARLETTA (anc. Barduli)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 405 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARLETTA (anc. Barduli) , a seaport See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Apulia, See also:Italy, on the E.S.E. See also:coast, in the See also:province of See also:Bari, 341 M. W.N.W. of Bari by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 42,022. Its importance See also:dates from the See also:time of the See also:Hohenstaufen. The See also:Gothic See also:church of S. Sepolcro was built at the See also:close of the 12th See also:century, and the Romanesque See also:cathedral was begun at the same See also:period, but added to later. In front of the former church stands a See also:bronze statue, 14 ft. in height, of the See also:emperor See also:Heraclius. The See also:castle behind the cathedral dates from 1537. The See also:harbour is See also:good. It was cleared by 5o8 sailing-vessels and 461 steamers, the latter with a See also:total See also:tonnage of 364,904 in 1904; the exports were of the value of £180,699 (principally See also:wine, See also:sulphur, oil, See also:tartar and tartaric See also:acid), and the imports £92,486 (See also:coal, See also:timber and sundries).

In the neighbourhood (between See also:

Andria and Corato), during the See also:siege of Barletta by the See also:French in 1503, the town being defended by the See also:Spanish See also:army, a combat took See also:place between thirteen picked knights of Italy and See also:France, which resulted in favour of the former: it has been celebrated by See also:Massimo d' See also:Azeglio in his Disfida di Barletta. Seven See also:miles to the N.W. are the See also:salt-See also:works of Barletta, now known under the name of Margherita di Savoia. (T.

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