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COSA
, an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Etruria, on the S.W. See also:coast of See also:Italy, See also:close to the Via See also:Aurelia, 42 M
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E.S.E. of the See also:modern See also:town of See also:Orbetello
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Apparently it was not an See also:independent See also:Etruscan town, but was founded as a See also:colony by the See also:Romans in the territory of the Volceientes, whom they had recently conquered, in 273 B.C
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The town was strongly fortified, and the walls, about a mile in See also:circuit, with three See also:gates, and seventeen projecting rectangular towers at intervals, are in places preserved to a height of over 30 ft. on the outside, and 15 on the inside
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The See also:lower See also:part is built of polygonal, the upper of rectangular, blocks, and the See also:masonry is of equal fineness all through, so that a difference of date cannot be assumed; such a See also:change of technique is not without parallel in See also:Greece (F
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Noack in Romische Mitteilungen, 1897, 194)
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Within the city no remains are visible
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The See also:place was of importance as a fortress; it was approached by a See also:branch road which diverged from the Via Aurelia at the See also:post station of Succosa, at the See also:foot of the See also: 245 . (T . |
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