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USELIS (mod. Usellus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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USELIS (mod. Usellus) , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Sardinia, situated in the hills to the S.E. of See also:Oristano, 900 ft. above See also:sea-level. A See also:bronze tablet of A.D. 158 (a tabula patronatus, setting forth that M. Aristius Balbinus had accepted the position of See also:patron of the town for himself and his heirs) speaks of the See also:place as Colonia Julia See also:Augusta Uselis. From this it would seem that it had become a See also:colony under See also:Augustus, were it not that See also:Pliny (H.N. iii. 85) asserts that Turris Libisonis was the only colony in Sardinia at his See also:time. It may be that civic rights were obtained from Augustus (Th. See also:Mommsen in Corp. Inscr. See also:Lat. x. p. 816).

The site of the ancient town is marked by the See also:

church of S. Reparata, and various antiquities have been found there. The episcopal see was transferred to See also:Ales in the 12th ' See also:century, though the old name is still officially used.

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