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

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