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CASTRUM MINERVAE (mod. Castro)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 485 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASTRUM MINERVAE (mod.

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Castro)  , an
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ancient
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town of the Sallentini in
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Calabria, ro m.
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south of Hydruntum, with an ancient
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temple of
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Minerva, said to have been founded by
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Idomeneus, who formed the tribe of the Sallentini from a mixture of Cretans, Illyrians and
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Italian Locrians . It is also said to have been the
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place where
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Aeneas first landed in
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Italy,the
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port of which he named
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Portus Veneris . The temple had lost some of its importance in
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Strabo's
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day .

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