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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 145 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORFINIUM , in See also:

ancient See also:Italy, the See also:chief See also:city of the See also:Paeligni, 7 M. N. of See also:Sulmona in the valley of the Aternus. The site of the See also:original See also:town is occupied by the See also:village of Pentima. It probably became sutject to See also:Rome in the 4th See also:century B.C., though it does not appear in See also:Roman See also:history before the Social See also:War (90 B.C.), in which it was at first adopted by the See also:allies as the See also:capital and seat of See also:government of their newly founded See also:state under the name Italia (this See also:form, not Italica, is vouched for by the coins). It appears also as a fortress of importance in the See also:Civil War, though it only resisted See also:Caesar's attack for a See also:week (49 B.C.). Whether the Via See also:Valeria ran as far as Corfinium before the See also:time of See also:Claudius is uncertain: he, however, certainly extended it to the Adriatic, and at the same time constructed a See also:cross road, the Via Claudia Nova, which diverged from the Via Claudia Valeria at a point 6 m. farther See also:north, and led past See also:Peltuinum and See also:Aveia to Foruli on the Via See also:Salaria. Another road ran S.S.E. past Sulmo to See also:Aesernia. It was thus an important road centre, and must have been, in the imperial See also:period, a town of some See also:size, as may be gathered from the See also:inscriptions that have been discovered there, and from the extent rather than the importance of the buildings visible on the site (among them may be noted the remains of two aqueducts), which has, however, never been systematically excavated. See also:Short accounts of discoveries will be found in Notizie degli Scavi, passim, and a museum, consisting chiefly of the contents of tombs, has been formed at Pentima. In one corner of a large enclosed space (possibly a See also:palaestra) was constructed the See also:church of S. Pelino. The See also:present See also:building See also:dates from the 13th century, though its origin may be traced to the end of the 5th when it was the See also:cathedral of the see of Valva, which appears to have been the name of Corfinium at the See also:close of the Roman period.

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