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CANOSA (anc. Canusium)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CANOSA (anc. See also:Canusium) , a See also:town of See also:Apulia, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Bari, situated on the right See also:bank of the Ofanto (anc. Aufidus), 505 ft. above See also:sea-level, 15 m. S.W. of See also:Barletta by See also:rail. Pop. (1901) 24,230. It was rebuilt in 963 below the See also:Roman See also:city, which had been abandoned after its devastation by the See also:Saracens in the 9th See also:century. The former See also:cathedral of S. Sabino (the bishopric passed in 1818 to See also:Andria), in the See also:southern Romanesque See also:style, was consecrated in 11o1: it has five domes (resembling St See also:Mark's at See also:Venice, except that it is a Latin See also:cross, instead of a See also:Greek cross, in See also:plan) and many See also:ancient columns. The archiepiscopal See also:throne and See also:pulpit of the end of the r rth century are also See also:fine. On the See also:south See also:side of the See also:building is the detached See also:mausoleum of See also:Bohemund, son of See also:Robert Guiscard, who died in rill, constructed partly in See also:Byzantine, partly in the See also:local style. It has fine See also:bronze doors with See also:long See also:inscriptions; the exterior is entirely faced with cipollino (Carystian) See also:marble.

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mortuary See also:chapel, which is unique at this See also:period, was undoubtedly derived from the turbeh before a See also:mosque; these turbehs are square, domed-roofed tombs in which the sultans and distinguished Mahommedans are buried (E. Bertaux, L' See also:Art See also:dens l'Italie meridionale, See also:Paris, 1904, i. 312). A See also:medieval See also:castle crowns the See also:hill on the side of which the city stands. (See CANUSIUM.) (T.

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