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See also:COSENZA (anc. Consentia)
, a See also:town and archiepiscopal see of See also:Calabria, See also:Italy, the See also:capital of the See also:province of See also:Cosenza, 755 ft. above See also:sea-level, 43 M. by See also:rail S. by W. of Sibari, which is a station on the E. See also:coast railway between Metaponto and Reggio
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(1901) town, 13,841; See also:commune, 20,857
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It is situated on the slope of a See also: It is mentioned by See also:Strabo as the See also:chief town of the Eruttii, and frequently spoken of in classical authors as an important place . It See also:lay on the Via Popillia . See also:Varro speaks of its See also:apple trees which gave See also:fruit twice in the See also:year and See also:Pliny praises its See also:wine also . It is the more surprising that in the whole of its territory no See also:inscriptions, either Greek or Latin, have ever been found, those that are recorded by some writers being fabrications. in A.D . 410 See also:Alaric See also:fell in See also:battle here and was buried, it is said, in the See also:bed of the Busento, which was temporarily diverted and then allowed to resume its natural course . Cosenza became an archbishopric in the 11th See also:century . In 1461 it was taken by Roberto See also:Orsini, and suffered severely . It was the See also:home of a scientific See also:academy founded by the philosopher Bernardino See also:Telesio (1509–1588) . In 1555–1561 it was the centre of the persecution by the See also:Inquisition of the Waldenses who had settled there towards the end of the 14th century . (T . |
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