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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 300 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TROIA , a See also:

TOWN

town and episcopal see of See also:

APULIA (sometimes APPULIa in manuscripts but never in inscriptions)

Apulia, See also:

Italy, in the See also:

province of See also:

FOGGIA

Foggia, situated 1440 ft. above See also:

sea-level, 7 M. N.W. of the station of Giardinetto-Troia, which is r6 m. S.W. of Foggia. Pop. (1901), 6674. Troia occupies the site of the See also:

ancient Aecae, 12 M. S. of Luceria, on the Via Traiana, a town which See also:

fell to See also:

Hannibal after the victory of See also:

CANNAE (mod. Canne)

Cannae, but was won back by the See also:

Romans in 214. Under the See also:

EMPIRE

empire it appears to have become a See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony. Troia was itself founded in 1017 by the See also:

Greek See also:

PREFECT (prefet)

prefect Basilius Bugianus. The See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral See also:

DATES

dates from 1107, but the upper See also:

PART

part of the See also:

FACADE

facade with its curious sculptures, See also:

FINE

fine See also:

rose-window and polychromatic decoration, the See also:

CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir See also:

apse and the interior were restored See also:

early in the 13th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The latter has been somewhat spoilt by See also:

RECENT

recent decorations. The See also:

BRONZE

bronze doors, partly in See also:

RELIEF

relief and partly in See also:

NIELLO (the Italian form of Lat. nigellum, diminutive of ?tiger, " black "; Late Gr. /IAAavbv)

niello, of 1119 and 1127 respectively, were See also:

CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast in Beneventum by Oderisius Berardus.

The small domed See also:

church of S. Basilio has an See also:

AMBO, or AMBON (Gr. altswv, from avasatvew, to walk up, the reading-desk of early Basilican churches, also called 7r'p'yoc. Originally small and movable, it was afterwards made of large proportions and fixed in one place. In the Byzantine and early Romane

ambo of 1158.

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