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CALATIA , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, 6 m. S.E. of See also:Capua, on the Via See also:Appia, near the point where the Via Popillia branches off from it. It is represented by the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of Giacomo alle Galazze. The Via Appia here, as at Capua, abandons its former S.E. direction for.a length of 2000 Oscan ft. (18o4i See also:English ft.), for which it runs due E. and then resumes its course S.E. There are no ruins, but a considerable quantity of debris; and the pre-See also:Roman See also:necropolis was partially excavated in 1882. Ten shafts lined with slabs of tufa which were there found may have been the approaches to tombs or may have served as See also:wells. The See also:history of Calatia is practically that of its more powerful See also:neighbour Capua, but as it See also:lay near the point where the Via Appia turns See also:east and enters the mountains, it had some strategic importance. In 313 B.C. it was taken by the See also:Samnites and recaptured by the See also:dictator Q. See also:Fabius; the Samnites captured it again in 311, but it must have been retaken at an unknown date. In the 3rd See also:century we find it issuing coins with an Oscan See also:legend, but in 211 B.C. it shared the See also:fate of Capua. In 174 we hear of its walls being repaired by the censors. In 59 B.C. a See also:colony was established here by See also:Caesar.
See Ch. Hulsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencydopadie, iii. 1334 (See also:Stuttgart, 1899).
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