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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 590 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOGGIA , a See also:

town and episcopal see (since 1855) of See also:Apulia, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of Foggia, situated 243 ft. above See also:sea-level, in the centre of the See also:great Apulian See also:plain, 201 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Ancona and 123 M. N.E. by E. of See also:Naples. Pop. (1901) town, 49,031; See also:commune, 53,134. The name is probably derived from the pits or cellars (foveae) in which the inhabitants See also:store their See also:grain. The town is the See also:medieval successor of the See also:ancient See also:Arpi, 3 M. to the N.; the See also:Normans, after conquering the See also:district from the Eastern See also:empire, gave it its first importance. The date of the erection of the See also:cathedral is probably about 1179; it retains some traces of See also:Norman See also:architecture, and the See also:facade has a See also:fine figured See also:cornice by Bartolommeo da Foggia; the See also:crypt has capitals of the 11th (?) See also:century. The whole See also:church was, however, much altered after the See also:earthquake of 1731. A gateway of the See also:palace of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II. (1223, by Bartolommeo da Foggia) is also preserved. Here died his third wife, See also:Isabella, daughter of See also:King See also:John of See also:England. See also:Charles of See also:Anjou died here in 1284.

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death, it was a See also:prey to See also:internal dissensions and finally came under See also:Alphonso I. of See also:Aragon, who converted the pastures of the Apulian plain into a royal domain in 1445, and made Foggia the See also:place at which the tax on the See also:sheep was to be paid and the See also:wool to be sold. The other buildings of the town are See also:modern. Foggia is a commercial centre of some importance for the produce of the surrounding See also:country, and is also a considerable railway centre, being situated on the See also:main See also:line from See also:Bologna to See also:Brindisi, at the point where this is joined by the line from See also:Benevento and See also:Caserta. There are also branches to Rocchetta S. See also:Antonio (and thence to either See also:Avellino, See also:Potenza, or Gioia del Colle), to See also:Manfredonia, and to See also:Lucera.

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