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tower. The Romanesque church of S.Abondio outside the town was founded in 1013 and consecrated in 1095; it has two fine campanili, placed at the ends of the aisles See also:

close to the See also:

apse. It occupies the site of the 5th-century church of SS.

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Peter and See also:

Paul. Near it is the Romanesque church of S. Carpoforo. Above it is the ruined See also:

castle of Baradello. The churches of S. Giacomo (1095—1117) and S. Fedele (12th century), both in the town, are also Romanesque, and the apses have See also:

EXTERNAL

external galleries. The Palazzo Giovio contains the Museo Civico. Como is a considerable tourist resort, and the steamboat See also:

TRAFFIC

traffic on the lake is largely for travellers. A See also:

CLIMATE

climate station is established on the See also:

hill of Brunate (2350 ft.) above the town to the E., reached by a funicular railway. The Milanese possess many villas here. Como is an See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial town, having large See also:

SILK

silk factories and other See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries (see LOMBARDY).

It is connected with Milan by two lines of railway, one via See also:

MONZA (locally Monscia)

Monza (the See also:

main line, which goes on to Chiasso—Swiss frontier—and the St Gotthard), the other via See also:

SARONNO

Saronno and also with See also:

LECCO

Lecco and See also:

VARESE

Varese. Of the Roman Comum little remains above ground; a portion of its S.E. See also:

wall was discovered and may be seen in the See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden of the Liceo See also:

Volta, 88 ft. within the later walls: later fortifications (but previous to 1127), largely constructed with Roman inscribed sepulchral urns and other fragments, had been super-imposed on it. Thermae have also been discovered (see V. Barelli in Notizie degli scavi, 188o, 333; 1881, 333; 1882, 285). The See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions, on the other See also:

hand, are numerous, and give an See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of its importance. The statements as to the tribe which originally possessed it are various. It belonged to Gallia Cisalpina, and first came into contact with See also:

Rome in 196 B.C., when M. See also:

Claudius See also:

MARCELLUS

Marcellus conquered the See also:

INSUBRES ("Ivoµ(3pes, "Ivvouf pot)

Insubres and the Comenses. In 89 B.C., having suffered damage from the Raetians, it was restored by Cn. Pompeius See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo, and given Latin rights with the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of Gallia Transpadana. Shortly of ter this 3000 colonists seem to have been sent there; 5000 were certainly sent by See also:

Caesar in 59 B.C., and the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place received the name Novum Comum. It appears in the imperial period as a See also:

MUNICIPIUM (Lat. munus, a duty or privilege, capere, to take)

municipium, and is generally spoken of as Comum simply.

The place was prosperous; it had an important See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry; and the See also:

banks of the lake were, as now, dotted with villas. It was also important as the starting-point for the See also:

JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey across the lake in connexion with the Splugen and Septimer passes (see CIIIA vENNA). It was the birthplace of both the See also:

elder and the younger See also:

Pliny, the latter of whom founded See also:

BATHS

baths and a library here and gave See also:

MONEY

money for the support of See also:

ORPHAN

orphan See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children. There was a praefectus dassis Comenses under the See also:

LATE

late See also:

EMPIRE

empire, and it was regarded as a strong fortress. See Ch. Hulsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, Suppl. Heft i. (See also:

STUTTGART

Stuttgart, 1903), 326. Como suffered considerably from the See also:

early See also:

BARBARIAN (Gr. fap/3apos)

barbarian invasions, many of the inhabitants taking See also:

REFUGE

refuge on the Isola Comacina off See also:

SALA, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HENRY (1828-1895)

Sala, but recovered in Lombard times. It was from that period that the magistri Comacini formed a privileged See also:

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a body, corpus, corporis)

corporation of architects and sculptors, who were employed in other parts of Italy also, until, at the end of the 11th century, individuals began. to come more to the front (G. T. Rivoira, Origini del-l' architettura Lombarda, Rome, 1901, i.

127 f.). Como then became subject to the archbishops of Milan, but gained its freedom towards the end of the 1 rth century. At the beginning of the 12th century See also:

war See also:

broke out between Como and Milan, and after a ten years' war Como was taken and its fortifications dismantled in 1127. In 1154, however, it took See also:

ADVANTAGE

advantage of the arrival of See also:

BARBAROSSA ("Redbeard")

Barbarossa, and remained faithful to him through-out the whole war of the Lombard See also:

LEAGUE

League. After frequent struggles with Milan, it See also:

fell under the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the See also:

VISCONTI

Visconti in 1335. In 1535, like the rest of Lombardy, it fell under See also:

SPANISH

Spanish dominion, and in 1714 under See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian. Thenceforth it shared the fortunes of Milan, becoming in the See also:

NAPOLEONIC

Napoleonic period the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief town of the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the Lario. Its silk industry and its position at the entrance to the Alpine passes gave it some importance even then. It See also:

BORE

bore a considerable See also:

PART

part in the See also:

NATIONAL

national risings of 1848–1859 against Austrian See also:

RULE

rule. (T.

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