Pollentia

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Pollentia

The ancient town of Pollentia on the left bank of the Tanaro

Tanaro River

The Tanaro , known as Tanarus in ancient times, is a 276 Kilometre-long river in north-western Italy. It rises in the Ligurian Alps, close to the border with France and is the most significant right-side tributary to the Po River in terms of length, size of drainage basin and Discharge ....
is known today as Pollenzo, 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 Bra in the Province of Cuneo

Province of Cuneo

Cuneo is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the France R?gion in France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur ....
, Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,399 km? and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital is Turin. The main local dialect is Piedmontese....
.

In antiquity Pollentia was in the territory of the Ligurian

Ligures

The Ligures were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ?people of the water?....
Statielli

Statielli

The Statielli, Statiellates, or Statiellenses were a small Ligures tribe which inhabited an area south of the river Padus . Their chief town was Aquae Statiellae , on the road from Vada Sabatia, near Savona to Tortona and Piacenza....
, Augusta Bagiennorum (modern Roncaglia in the Commune of Bene Vagienna

Bene Vagienna

Bene Vagienna is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italy region Piedmont, located about 60 km south of Turin and about 30 km northeast of Cuneo....
) being 16 km to the south. Its position on the road from Augusta Taurinorum (modern Turin) to the coast at Vada Sabatia (modern Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure, in antiquity Vado Sabatia, is a town in the province of Savona, Liguria, in northern Italy....
, near Savona

Savona

File:Savona-IMG 1526.JPGSavona is a seaport and comune in the northern Italy region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea....
), at the point of divergence of a road to Hasta

Asti

Asti is a city and comune of c. 75,000 inhabitants located in the Piedmont region of north-western Italy, about 55 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River....
(modern Asti) gave it military

Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
importance.

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The ancient town of Pollentia on the left bank of the Tanaro

Tanaro River

Province of Cuneo

Cuneo is a province in the southwest of the Piedmont region of Italy. To the west it borders on the France R?gion in France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur ....
, Piedmont

Piedmont

Ligures

Statielli

Bene Vagienna

Vado Ligure

Vado Ligure, in antiquity Vado Sabatia, is a town in the province of Savona, Liguria, in northern Italy....
, near Savona

Savona

Asti

Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
importance. Decimus Brutus managed to occupy it an hour before Mark Antony

Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius , known in English as Marc Antony, was a Roman Republic politician and General. He was an important supporter and the best friend of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesar's second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia....
in 43 BC; and it was here that Stilicho

Stilicho

Flavius Stilicho was a high-ranking general , Patrician and Consul of the Western Roman Empire, notably of barbarian birth....
on the March 29, 403

403

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fought the Battle of Pollentia

Battle of Pollentia

The Battle of Pollentia was fought on 6 April 402 between the Roman Empire and the Visigoths.Since February, the Visigoths, led by Alaric I, had been besieging Mediolanum, the capital of Roman Emperor Honorius, defended by Roman Gothic troops....
with Alaric

Alaric I

Alaric I , was likely born about 370 on an Peuce Island at the mouth of the Danube. He was king of the Visigoths from 395–410 and the first Germanic peoples leader to take the city of Rome....
which though undecided led the Goths

Goths

The Goths were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, invasion the Roman Empire and later adopted Arian Christianity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy....
to evacuate Italy.

The place was famous for its brown wool

Wool

Wool is the fiber derived from the specialized skin cells, called follicles, of animals in the Caprinae family, principally domestic sheep, but the hair of certain species of other Mammalia such as cashmere goat, llamas, rabbits and keeshonds may also be called wool....
, and for its pottery

Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. Major types of pottery include earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. The places where such wares are made are called potteries....
.

According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica considerable remains of ancient buildings, including an amphitheater, a theater and a temple

Temple

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A ??templum?? constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur....
were still in existence, although the so-called temple of Diana was more probably a tomb

Tomb

For the New York prison see The Tombs.A tomb is a repository for the remains of the death. The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes....
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