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CAMERINO (anc. Camerinum)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 108 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMERINO (anc. Camerinum) , a See also:city and episcopal see (since 465, if not sooner; Treia is now combined with it) of the See also:Marches, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Macerata, 6 m. S. of the railway station of Castelraimondo (to which there is an electric See also:tramway) which is 24 M. W. of Macerata; 2148 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901) of See also:town, 4o05; of See also:commune, 12,083. The See also:cathedral is See also:modern, the older See also:building having fallen in 1799; the See also:church of S. Venanzio suffered similarly, but preserves a portal of the 15th See also:century. The citadel, perhaps constructed from the plans of Leonardo da See also:Vinci, See also:dates from 1503. Camerino occupies the site of the See also:ancient Camerinum, the inhabitants of which (Camertes Umbri) became See also:allies of the See also:Romans in 310 B.C. (at the See also:time of the attack on the Etruscans in the Ciminian See also:Forest). On the other See also:hand, the Kap..Epr1ot referred to in the See also:history of the See also:year 295 B.C. are probably the inhabitants of See also:Clusium.

Later it appears as a dependent autonomous community with the foedus aequum (See also:

Mommsen, Rom. Staatsrecht, iii. 664). Two cohorts of Camertes fought with distinction under See also:Marius against the See also:Cimbri. It was much affected by the See also:conspiracy of See also:Catiline, and is frequently mentioned in the See also:Civil See also:Wars; under the See also:empire it was a See also:municipium. It belonged to ancient See also:Umbria, but was on the See also:borders of See also:Picenum. No ancient buildings are visible, the See also:Roman level lying as much as 30 ft. below the modern. See P. Savini, See also:Scoria della See also:Cilia di Camerino (2nd ed., Camerino, 1895) ; M. Mariani, Intorno agli antichi Camerti Umbri (Camerino, 1900). (T.

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