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TEANO (anc. Teanum Sidicinum)

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TEANO (anc. Teanum Sidicinum) , a See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Caserta, 21 M. N.W. of that town on the See also:main See also:line to See also:Rome from See also:Naples, forming conjointly with See also:Calvi an episcopal see. Pop. (1901) 6067 (town); 13,505 (See also:commune). It stands at the S.E. See also:foot of an See also:extinct See also:volcano, Rocca Monfina (3297 ft.), 643 ft. above See also:sea-level. The See also:cathedral See also:dates from 1530, but has many columns obtained from the ruins of the See also:ancient town. There is a feudal See also:castle built by the See also:dukes of Sessa in the 15th See also:century. Below the town on the S.E. is the old See also:church of S. Paride. The ancient Teanum Sidicinum (there is a Teanum Apulum, q.v., in See also:Apulia) was the See also:capital of the Oscan tribe of the Sidicini which drove the See also:Aurunci from Rocca Monfina. They probably submitted to Rome in 334 B.C. and their troops were grouped with those of Campania in the See also:Roman See also:army.

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garrison of See also:Regium, which in 28o attacked the citizens, consisted of one See also:cohort of Sidicini and two of Campanians. Like Cales, Teanum continued to have the right of coinage, and, like Suessa and Cales, remained faithful to Rome in both the Hannibalic and the Social See also:wars. Its position gave it some military importance, and it was apparently made a See also:colony by See also:Claudius, not by See also:Augustus. See also:Strabo speaks of it as the most important town on the Via See also:Latina, and only coming after See also:Capua among the towns in the interior of Campania. It See also:lay on the Via Latina, here joined by a See also:branch road from Suessa, of which remains still exist, and which continued E. to See also:Allifae. Remains of a See also:theatre and an See also:amphitheatre still exist, and some extensive See also:baths, containing several statues, and some Roman dwellings. both some way below the See also:modern town, were excavated in 1go8. A See also:tomb with a See also:Christian See also:mosaic representing the visit of the three See also:kings to See also:Bethlehem was found in 1907 (V. Spinazzola in Notizie degli Scavi, 1907, 697; E. Gabrici, ibid., 1908, 399).

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