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CAIATIA (mod. Caiazzo)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 948 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAIATIA (mod. Caiazzo) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Campania, on the right See also:bank of the Volturnus, 11 m. N.E. of See also:Capua, on the road between it and See also:Telesia. It was already in the hands of the See also:Romans in 306 B.c., and since in the 3rd See also:century Inc. it issued See also:copper. coins with a Latin See also:legend it must have had the civitas sine suffragio. In the Social See also:War it rebelled from See also:Rome, and its territory was added to that of Capua by See also:Sulla. In the imperi& See also:period, however, we find it once more a See also:municipium. Caiatia has remains of Cyclopean walls, and under the Piazza del Mercato is a large See also:Roman cistern,which still provides a See also:good See also:water See also:supply: The episcopal see was founded in A.D. 966. The See also:place is frequently confused with See also:Calatia (q.v.).

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