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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GNATIA (also EGNATIA or IGNATIA, mod. Anazzo, near Fasano)  , an ancient city of the Peucetii, and their frontier
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town towards the Sallentini (i.e. of Apulia towards
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Calabria), in
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Roman times of importance for its trade, lying as it did on the sea, at the point where the Via Traiana joined the coast road,' 38 m . S.E. of Barium . The ancient city walls have been almost entirely destroyed in
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recent times to provide
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building material,' and the place is famous for the discoveries made in its tombs . A considerable collection of antiquities from Gnatia is preserved at Fasano, though the best are in the museum at Bari . Gnatia was the scene of the
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prodigy at which Horace mocks (Sat. i . 5 . 97) . Near Fasano are two small subterranean chapels with paintings of the lath century A.D . (E . Bertaux, L'
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Art dane l'Italie meridionale, Paris, 1904, 135) . (T .

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