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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SENTINUM , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Umbria, See also:Italy, lying to the S. of the See also:modern town of Sassoferrato, in the See also:low ground. The See also:foundations of the See also:city walls are preserved, and a road and remains of houses have been discovered, including several See also:mosaic pavements (T. Buccolini in Notizie degli scavi, 1890, 346) and See also:inscriptions of the latter See also:half of the 3rd See also:century A.D., including three important tabulae patronatus. In the neighbourhood the See also:battle took See also:place in which the See also:Romans defeated the combined forces of the See also:Samnites and Gauls in 295 B.C. It was taken and destroyed in 41 B.C. by the troops of Octavian, but continued to exist under the See also:Empire. It was, however, only a See also:municipium, never (as some wrongly suppose) a colonic. Sassoferrato gave its name to Giambattista Salvi, surnamed Sassoferrato (16o5-1685), a painter celebrated for his Madonnas.

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