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CONVERSANO

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 46 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONVERSANO  , a

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town and episcopal see of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Bari, 17 In . S.E. by
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rail from the town of Bari . Pop . (1901) 13,685 . It has a
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fine
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southern Romanesque
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cathedral of the end of the 11th century, with a modernized interior, and a castle which from 1456 belonged to the Acquaviva
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family, dukes of
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Atri and
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counts of Conversano . The convent of S . Benedetto is one of the earliest offshoots of Montecassino . (See S . Simone, Il Duomo di Conversano,
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Trani, 1896) . Here, or in the vicinity, is the site of the unimportant ancient town of
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Norba .

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