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MEVANIA (mod. Bevagna)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 316 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEVANIA (mod. Bevagna) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Umbria, on the See also:river See also:Clitumnus and on the Via See also:Flaminia, 8 m. W.S.W. of See also:Forum Flaminii, and 5 m. W. of Fulginium (See also:Foligno), 738 ft. above See also:sea-level. There are remains of a See also:temple near the See also:north See also:gate, and of an See also:amphitheatre built into the See also:modern houses. The wails, which have disappeared, were, according to See also:Pliny (Hist. Nat. See also:xxxv. 173), built of unbaked bricks. In 310 B.C. the See also:consul See also:Fabius See also:broke the Umbrian forces here; but other-See also:wise it is not mentioned until the 1st See also:century A.D. In 69 the See also:army of See also:Vitellius awaited here the advance of See also:Vespasian. Its pastures near the river and its See also:white oxen are mentioned by See also:Propertius, whose See also:family belonged to See also:Asisium (mod. See also:Assisi) and after him by Silius Italicus, See also:Lucan and See also:Statius.

The town was a See also:

municipium. The churches of S. Michele Arcangelo and S. Nicolo are Romanesque buildings of the 12th century.

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