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URBS SALVIA (mod. Urbisaglia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 793 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALVIA (mod. Urbisaglia) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Picenum, See also:Italy, about 8 m. S. of the See also:modern See also:Macerata, and to m. S. of See also:Ricina. It was the See also:meeting-point of several ancient roads; the road leading See also:south from See also:Ancona through Ricina and Falerio to Asculum was crossed here at right angles by that from Fanum to Tolentinum, Septempeda (S. Severino) and Nuceria Camellaria, while another led See also:north-See also:east from Urbs Salvia to Pausulae and the See also:coast at Potentia (near mod. See also:Porto See also:Recanati). It seems to have been also called See also:Pollentia. The date of its See also:foundation is unknown, but it became a See also:colony in the See also:time of See also:Trajan, and its importance seems to begin from this See also:period. It was utterly destroyed by See also:Alaric, and both See also:Procopius (B.G. ii. 16, 17) and See also:Dante (Paradiso, xvi. 73) speak of its desolation.

The arx is occupied by the modern See also:

village; below it consider-able remains of the See also:city walls and of the buildings within them, alike of See also:brickwork of the imperial period, are preserved —an See also:amphitheatre 328 X249 ft., with an See also:arena 190 X 112 ft., a See also:theatre, See also:baths, tombs, &c. A subterranean See also:aqueduct and a number of See also:inscriptions have been found on the site. See also:Close by is a little See also:chapel with paintings of the See also:early 16th See also:century. The Romanesque See also:abbey See also:church of the Fiastra, about 3 M. to the north, is noticeable. The territory of Urbs Salvia probably extended as far as the old Romanesque church of S. Maria di Rambona, 8 m. to the north-See also:west.

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