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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 777 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CEVA , a See also:

town of See also:Piedmont, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Cuneo, 33 M. E. by See also:rail from the town of Cuneo, 1270 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901) 2703. In the See also:middle ages it was a strong fortress defending the confines of Piedmont towards See also:Liguria, but the fortifications on the See also:rock above the town were demolished in x800 by the See also:French, to whom it had been ceded in 1796. Its See also:cheese (caseus cebanus) was famous in See also:Roman times, but it does not seem ever to have been a Roman town. It See also:lay on the road between See also:Augusta Taurinorum and Vada Sabatia. A See also:branch railway runs from Ceva through Garessio, with its See also:marble quarries, to Ormea (2398 ft.), 22 M. to the See also:south through the upper valley of the Tanaro, which in Roman times was under Albingaunum (Th. See also:Mommsen in Corp. Incr. See also:Lat. v. (See also:Berlin, 1877), p.

898). From Ormea a road runs south to (31 m.) Oneglia on the Ligurian See also:

coast.

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