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CARSULAE , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Umbria, on the Via See also:Flaminia, 19 M . N. of Narnia (mod . See also:Narni) and 24 M . S.S.W. of See also:Mevania (mod . Bevagna) . It is little mentioned in ancient literature . The See also:town was a See also:municipium . The Via Flaminia is well preserved and enters the See also:north See also:gate of the town, the archway of which still stands . Remains of buildings may also be seen upon the site, and the outline of an See also:amphitheatre is visible . The town of Cesi, 3 M. to the See also:south-See also:east, has polygonal walls, and may perhaps be regarded as an Umbrian city which was destroyed by the See also:Romans, Carsulae being constructed in its See also:stead . The See also:medieval city, as so often happened in See also:Italy, returned to the pre-See also:Roman site . See G . Gamurrini in Notizie degli Scavi (1884), 149; for the tombs, L . |
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