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CASTIGLIONE DELLE STIVIERE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTIGLIONE DELLE STIVIERE , a See also:town of See also:Lombardy, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Mantua, 20 M. N.W. of Mantua by road. Pop. (1901) 4122 (town), 5940 (See also:commune). It has an old See also:castle, much altered and restored, especially by the See also:Gonzaga See also:family of Mantua in the 16th See also:century. During the See also:War of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession, the See also:French under the See also:duke of See also:Vendome occupied it; and during the See also:siege of Mantua in 1796, the Austrians under Wurmser were defeated here by the French under See also:Augereau, who was later created by See also:Napoleon duke of Castiglione.

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