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FLUMINI MAGGIORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 575 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLUMINI

MAGGIORE  , a
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town of the province of Cagliari, Sardinia, to m. by road N. of
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Iglesias, and 5 M. from the W. coast . Pop . (1901) town 3908; commune 9647 . It is the centre of a. considerable lead and
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zinc
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mining
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district . Three miles to the S. are the ruins of a temple erected probably in the time of Commodus (Corpus inscr .
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Lat. x., Berlin, 1883, No . 7539) . They seem to mark the site of Metalla (mines), a station on the coast road from
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Sulci to
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Tharros, and the centre of the mining district in
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Roman times . At Flumini Maggiore itself were found two ingots of lead, one bearing a stamp with Hadrian's name .

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