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BORMIO (Ger. Worms)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BORMIO (Ger.
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Worms)  , a
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town of
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Lombardy,
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Italy, in the
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province of
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Sondrio, 412 M . N.E. of the town of Sondrio . Pop . (19o1) 1814 . It is situated in the
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Valtellina (the valley of the
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Adda), 4020 ft. above
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sea-level, at the
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foot of the Stelvio pass, and, owing to its position, was of some military importance in the
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middle ages . It contains interesting churches and picturesque towers . A
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cemetery of pre-
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Roman date was discovered at
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Bormio in 1820 . The
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baths of Bormio, 2 M. farther up the valley, are mentioned by
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Pliny and
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Cassiodorus, the secretary of
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Theodoric, and are much frequented .

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