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BELLUNO (anc. Bellunum)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 710 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELLUNO (anc. Bellunum) , a See also:city and episcopal see of See also:Venetia, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Belluno, N. of Treviso, 54 M. by See also:rail and 28 m. See also:direct. Pop. (1901) See also:town, 6898; See also:commune, 19,050. It is situated in the valley of the Piave, at its confluence with the Ardo, 1285 ft. above See also:sea-level, among the See also:lower Venetian See also:Alps. It was a See also:Roman See also:municipium. In the See also:middle ages it went through various vicissitudes; it See also:fell under the dominion of See also:Venice in 1511, and remained Venetian until 1797. Its buildings See also:present Venetian characteristics; it has some See also:good palaces, notably the See also:fine See also:early Lombard See also:Renaissance Palazzo dei Rettori, now the seat of the prefecture. The See also:cathedral, erected after 1517 by Tullio See also:Lombardo, was much damaged by the See also:earthquake of 1873, which destroyed a considerable portion of the town, though the campanile, 217 ft. high, erected in 1732–1743, stood See also:firm. The See also:facade was never finished. Important remains of prehistoric settlements have been found in the vicinity; cf. G.

Ghirardini in Notizie degli Scavi, 1883, 27, on the See also:

necropolis of Caverzano. (T.

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