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GALES (mod. Calvi)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 1004 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GALES (mod. See also:Calvi) , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Campania, belonging originally to the See also:Aurunci, on the Via See also:Latina, 8 m. N.N.W. of See also:Casilinum. It was taken by the See also:Romans in 335 B.C., and, a .:olony with Latin rights of 2500 citizens having been established there, it was for a See also:long See also:time the centre of the See also:Roman dominion in Campania, and the seat of the See also:quaestor for See also:southern See also:Italy even down to the days of See also:Tacitus? It was an important See also:base in the See also:war against See also:Hannibal, and at last refused further contributions for the war. Before 184 more settlers were sent there. After the Social War it became a See also:municipium. The fertility of its territory and its manufacture of See also:black glazed pottery, which was even exported to See also:Etruria, made it prosperous. At the end of the 3rd See also:century it appears as a See also:colony, and in the 5th century it became an episcopal see, which (jointly with See also:Teano since 1818) it still is, though it is now a See also:mere See also:village. The See also:cathedral, of the 12th century, has a carved portal and three apses decorated with small See also:arches and pilasters, and contains a See also:fine See also:pulpit and episcopal See also:throne in See also:marble See also:mosaic. Near it are two grottos I To the See also:period after 335 belong numerous See also:silver and See also:bronze coins with the See also:legend Caleno.which have been used for See also:Christian See also:worship and contain frescoes of the loth and 1th centuries (E. Bertaux, L'See also:Art clans l'Italie meridionale (See also:Paris, 1904), i.

244, &c.). See also:

Inscriptions name six See also:gates of the See also:town: and there are considerable remains of antiquity, especially of an See also:amphitheatre and See also:theatre, of a supposed See also:temple, and other edifices. A number of tombs belonging to the Roman -See also:necropolis were discovered in 1883. See C. Hiilsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, iii. 1351 (See also:Stuttgart, 1899). (T.

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