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HADRIA [mod. Atri (q.v.)]

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 800 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HADRIA [mod. See also:Atri (q.v.)] , perhaps the See also:original terminal point of the Via See also:Caecilia, See also:Italy. It belonged to the Praetutii. It became a See also:colony of See also:Rome in 290 B.C. and remained faithful to Rome. The coins which it issued (probably during the Punic See also:Wars), are remarkable. The See also:crypt of the See also:cathedral of the See also:modern See also:town was originally a large See also:Roman cistern; another forms the See also:foundation of the ducal See also:palace; and in the eastern portion of the town there is a complicated See also:system of underground passages for See also:collecting and storing See also:water. See Notizie degli scavi (1902), 3.

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