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VOLCEI (mod. BuccINO)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOLCEI (mod. BuccINO) , an See also:ancient See also:town of Lucania, 2128 ft. above See also:sea-level, the See also:chief town of the See also:independent tribe of the Volceiani, Vulcientes or Volcentani, whose territory was bounded N. by that of the See also:Hirpini, W. and S. by Lucania and E. by the territory of See also:Venusia. Some pre-See also:Roman ruins still exist (Not. Scay., 1884, 115). It became a See also:municipium, and in A.D. 323 had an extensive territory attached to it, including the town of Numistro, the large Cyclopean walls of which may still be seen, 21 m. below Muro Lucano. Below the town is a well-preserved Roman See also:bridge over the See also:Tanager (mod. Tanagro). See G. Patroni in Notizie degli scavi (1897), 183.

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