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FRANCAVILLA FONTANA

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 775 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCAVILLA

FONTANA  , a
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town and episcopal see of Apulia, Italy, in the province of Lecce, 22 M. by
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rail E. by N. of Taranto, 46o ft. above sea-level . Pop . (1901) 17,759 (town); 20,510 (commune) . It is`in a
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fine situation, and has a massive square castle of the Umperiali
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family, to whom, with
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Oria, it was sold by S . Carlo Borromeo in the 16th century for 40,000 ounces of gold, which he distributed in one day to the poor .

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