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BORGO SAN DONNINO

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 250 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BORGO See also:

SAN

SAN DONNINO , a See also:

TOWN

town and episcopal see of See also:

EMILIA

Emilia, See also:

Italy, in the See also:

province of See also:

PARMA

Parma, 14 M. N.W. by See also:

RAIL

rail from the town of Parma. Pop. (1901) town, 6251; See also:

commune, 12,109. It occupies the site of the See also:

ancient Fidentia, on the Via Aemilia; no doubt, as its name shows, of See also:

ROMAN

Roman origin. Here M. See also:

LUCULLUS

Lucullus defeated the democrats under See also:

CARBO

Carbo in 82 B.c. It was See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent under See also:

VESPASIAN

Vespasian, but seems soon to have become a See also:

VILLAGE

village dependent on Parma. Its presdnt name comes from the martyrdom of S. Domninus under Maximian in A.D. 304. The See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral, erected in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of this See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint, is one of the finest and best-preserved See also:

LOMBARDO

Lombardo-Romanesque churches of the 11th–13th centuries in See also:

north Italy.

The upper See also:

PART

part of the See also:

FACADE

facade is incomplete, but the See also:

LOWER

lower, with its three portals and sculptures, is very See also:

FINE

fine; the interior is See also:

SIMPLE

simple and well-proportioned, and has not been spoilt by restorations. For the benitier, a See also:

WORK

work of the See also:

early 11th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, see Rdssegna d'Arte, 1905, 180. Not far from the town is the small See also:

church of S. See also:

Antonio del Viennese, a 13th-century structure in See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick (ib., 1906, 22). The Palazzo Comunale, in the See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic-Lombard See also:

style, is a work of the 14th century. Borgo S. Donnino is an important centre for the produce and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle of Emilia. (T.

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