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TEANUM APULUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 486 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEANUM APULUM , an See also:

ancient See also:town of See also:Apulia, See also:Italy, on the road between Larinum and Sipontum, i8 m. E. of the former, at the See also:crossing of the Fortore near the See also:modern See also:village of S. See also:Paolo di Civitate. It was called Teate in earlier times, as appears from its numerous coins, which have Oscan legends. It submitted to See also:Rome in 318 B.C., being then the See also:chief town of Apulia. It was afterwards known as Teanum Apulum, and was a See also:municipium. Some ruins and an old See also:bridge over the Fortore still exist. See also:TEA-POY (Hindustani tepai), a small table, supported upon a See also:tripod, or even upon four legs, for holding a tea-service or an See also:urn. The word was also sometimes applied to a large See also:porcelain or earthenware tea-caddy, and more frequently to the small bottles, often of See also:Battersea See also:enamel, which fitted into receptacles in the caddy and actually contained the tea.

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