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CASTRUM MINERVAE (mod. Castro)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 485 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTRUM MINERVAE (mod. See also:

Castro) , an See also:ancient See also:town of the Sallentini in See also:Calabria, ro m. See also:south of Hydruntum, with an ancient See also:temple of See also:Minerva, said to have been founded by See also:Idomeneus, who formed the tribe of the Sallentini from a mixture of Cretans, Illyrians and See also:Italian Locrians. It is also said to have been the See also:place where See also:Aeneas first landed in See also:Italy,the See also:port of which he named See also:Portus Veneris. The temple had lost some of its importance in See also:Strabo's See also:day.

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