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city of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Caserta, 77 M. N. by W. of that See also:town on the railway between Roccasecca and See also:Avezzano, 920 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (19o1), 6,o5o (town); 16,022 (See also:commune). It is built in a See also:plain on the See also:banks of the Liris. This See also:part of the valley is the seat of some important manufactures, especially of See also:paper-See also:mills. The See also:original See also:cathedral, consecrated by See also:Pope See also:Adrian IV. in 1155, was destroyed by the See also:earthquake of 1634. On the precipitous See also:rock above the town (1768 ft.) which See also:guards the Liris valley and the entrance to the Abruzzi are remains of polygonal walls; here, possibly, was the citadel of the original Volscian town. There are also remains of See also:medieval fortifications. In the town itself there are no remains of antiquity nor buildings of See also:interest. The See also:district around Sora is famous for the costumes of its peasants. Sora, an See also:ancient Volscian town, was thrice captured by the See also:Romans, in 345, 314 and 305 B.C., before they managed, in 303, by means of a See also:colony 4000 strong, to confirm its See also:annexation.

In 209 it was one of the colonies which refused further contributions to the See also:

war against See also:Hannibal. By the lex Julia it became a See also:municipium, but under See also:Augustus it was colonized by soldiers of the legio IV. Sorana, which had been mainly enrolled there. It belonged technically to See also:Latium Adjectum. The See also:castle of Sorella, built on the rocky height above the town, was in the See also:middle ages a stronghold of some See also:note. See also:Charles I. of See also:Anjou made Sora a duchy for the Cantelmi; it was afterwards seized by See also:Pius II., but, being restored to the Cantelmi by See also:Sixtus IV., it ultimately passed to the Della Rovere of See also:Urbino. Against See also:Caesar See also:Borgia the city was heroically defended by Giovanni di Montefeltro. It was See also:purchased by See also:Gregory XIII. for 11,000 ducats and bestowed on the Buoncompagni, the ancestors of the See also:line of Buoncompagni-Ludovisi. In ancient times Sora was the birthplace of the Decii, Attilius See also:Regulus, and See also:Lucius See also:Mummius; and among its later celebrities is See also:Cardinal See also:Baronius. (T.

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