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Cannae (band)

Cannae is a metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their style mixes death metal, hardcore punk and thrash metal, with a focus on dual guitar work , heavy, double bass drumming and both growling and screaming vocals....
 is also a band from Boston, Massachusetts.
Cannae (mod. Canne della Battaglia) is an ancient village of the Apulia
Apulia

Apulia is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south....
 region of south east Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is a frazione
Frazione

A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere....
 of the comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 of Barletta
Barletta

Barletta is a city in the north of Apulia in southern Italy with c. 93,000 inhabitants. It is currently in the province of Bari, but, starting from 2009, will become the government seat of the new Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani....
.

s situated near the river Aufidus
Ofanto

The Ofanto, known in ancient times as Aufidus, from the greek language Ophidus, Of?d???, meaning snake, is a 170 km river in southern Italy....
 (mod. Ofanto), on a hill on the right bank, 9.6 km (6 miles) southwest from its mouth, and 9 km southwest from Barletta.

s primarily known for the Battle of Cannae
Battle of Cannae

The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy....
, in which the numerically superior Roman army
Roman army

The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
 suffered a disastrous defeat by Hannibal in 216 BC (see Punic Wars
Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Ancient Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC. They were probably the largest wars yet of the ancient world....
).






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Cannae
Cannae (band)

Cannae is a metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts. Their style mixes death metal, hardcore punk and thrash metal, with a focus on dual guitar work , heavy, double bass drumming and both growling and screaming vocals....
 is also a band from Boston, Massachusetts.
Cannae (mod. Canne della Battaglia) is an ancient village of the Apulia
Apulia

Apulia is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south....
 region of south east Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is a frazione
Frazione

A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere....
 of the comune
Comune

In Italy, the comune, is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality....
 of Barletta
Barletta

Barletta is a city in the north of Apulia in southern Italy with c. 93,000 inhabitants. It is currently in the province of Bari, but, starting from 2009, will become the government seat of the new Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani....
.

Geography

It is situated near the river Aufidus
Ofanto

The Ofanto, known in ancient times as Aufidus, from the greek language Ophidus, Of?d???, meaning snake, is a 170 km river in southern Italy....
 (mod. Ofanto), on a hill on the right bank, 9.6 km (6 miles) southwest from its mouth, and 9 km southwest from Barletta.

History

It is primarily known for the Battle of Cannae
Battle of Cannae

The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy....
, in which the numerically superior Roman army
Roman army

The Roman Army was employed by the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, as part of the Roman military. Its most important infantry constituent for much of its history was the Roman legion....
 suffered a disastrous defeat by Hannibal in 216 BC (see Punic Wars
Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Ancient Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146 BC. They were probably the largest wars yet of the ancient world....
). There is a considerable controversy as to whether the battle took place on the right or the left bank of the river.

In later times the place became a municipium, and remains of an unimportant Roman town still exist upon the hill known as Monte di Canne. In the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 it became a bishopric
Diocese

In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicanism, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop. It is also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bi...
, and again saw military action in the second battle of Cannae, twelve centuries after the more famous one (1018). Ultimately the town was destroyed in 1276.

See also

  • Battle of Cannae
    Battle of Cannae

    The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy....
     216 BC
  • Battle of Cannae (1018)
    Battle of Cannae (1018)

    The Battle of Cannae took place in 1018 between the Byzantines under the Catepan of Italy Basil Boioannes and the Lombards under Melus of Bari. The Lombards had also hired some Normans mercenaries under their leader Gilbert Buat?re....