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CANNAE (mod. Canne)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANNAE (mod. Canne) , an See also:ancient See also:village of See also:Apulia, near the See also:river Aufidus, situated on a See also:hill on the right See also:bank, 6 m. S.W. from its mouth. It is celebrated for the disastrous defeat which the See also:Romans received there from See also:Hannibal in 216 B.C. (see PUNIC See also:WARS). There is a considerable controversy as to whether the See also:battle took See also:place on the right or the See also:left bank of the river. In later times the place became a See also:municipium, and unimportant See also:Roman remains still exist upon the hill known as See also:Monte di Canne. In the See also:middle ages it became a bishopric, but was destroyed in 1276. See O. Schwab, Das Schlachtfeld von Canna (See also:Munich, 1898), and authorities under PUNIC WARS.

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