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VELEIA , an See also:

ancient See also:town of Aemilia, See also:Italy, situated about 20 m, S.. of Placentia. , It is mentioned by See also:Pliny among the towns of the eighth region, though the Veleiates were Ligurianby See also:race. Its inhabitants were in the See also:census of See also:Vespasian found to be remarkable for their See also:longevity. Nothing further was known of it until 1747, when some ploughmen found the famous Tabula alimentaria, now in the museum at See also:Parma. This, the largest inscribed See also:bronze tablet of antiquity (4 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.) contains the See also:list of estates in the territories of Veleia, Libarna, Placentia, Parma and Luca, in which See also:Trajan had assigned before 102 B.C. 72,000 sesterces (72o) and then 1,044,000 sesterces (Io,44o), on a See also:mortgage See also:bond to See also:forty-six estates, the See also:total value of which was reckoned at over 13,000,000 sesterces (b30,000), the See also:interest on which at 5% was to serve for the support of 266 boys and 36 girls, the former receiving 16, the latter 12 sesterces a See also:month. See Ligures Baebiani for a similar inscription. Excavations were begun on the site in 176o, and were at first successful; the See also:forum and See also:basilica, the thermae and the See also:amphitheatre, private houses, &c., with many statues (twelve of See also:marble from the basilica, and a See also:fine bronze See also:head of See also:Hadrian) and See also:inscriptions were discovered. Pre-See also:Roman See also:cremation tombs have also been found, with See also:objects of bronze and See also:iron of no See also:great value. But later excavations which were carried on at intervals up to 1876 have given less fruitful results.

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oldest dated See also:monument is a bronze tablet with a portion of the See also:text of the Lex Rubria of 49 B.C. which dealt with the' See also:administration of See also:justice in Cisalpine See also:Gaul in connexion with the See also:extension to it of the privileges of the Roman See also:franchise, the latest an inscription of A.D. 276. How and when it was abandoned is uncertain: the previously prevalent view that it was destroyed by a landslip was proved to be mistaken by the excavations of 1876. Most of the objects found are in the museum at Parma. See G. Antolini, Le See also:Ravine di Veleia (See also:Milan, 1831) ; G. Merlotti in Notizie degli Scavi (1877), 157; E. Bormann in Corpus Inscript. Latin (See also:Berlin, 1$88), xi. 204 sqq. (T. As.) VELEZ-See also:MALAGA, a town of See also:southern See also:Spain; in the See also:province of Malaga, finely situated in a fertile valley at the southern See also:base of the lofty Sierra de Alhama, and on the See also:left See also:bank of the small See also:river Velez, I m. from its mouth and 27 M. by road E.N.E. of Malaga.

Pop. (1900) 23,586. Velez-Malaga formerly was a See also:

place of considerable commercial importance, but its prosperity has much declined; there is no railway, and the town suffered severely in the earthquakes of 1884 and the floods of 1907. The vegetation of the neighbourhood is most luxuriant, including the See also:aloe, See also:palm, See also:sugar-See also:cane, prickly See also:pear, See also:orange, See also:vine, See also:olive and sweet See also:potato. Velez-Malaga was held by the See also:Moors from 711 to 1487, when it was captured by See also:Ferdinand of See also:Castile. Under Moorish See also:rule the citadel was built and the town became an important trading station and fortress. Its See also:harbour, the Velez See also:estuary, affords See also:good anchorage and is well sheltered.

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