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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUALDO TADINO (anc. Tadinum, z m. to the W.)  , a See also:

town and episcopal see of See also:Umbria, See also:Italy, 1755 ft. above See also:sea-level, in the See also:province of See also:Perugia, 22 m . N. of See also:Foligno by See also:rail . Pop . (19o1), town, 4440; See also:commune, 10,756 . The suffix Tadino distinguishes it from Gualdo in the province of See also:Macerata, and Gualdo Cattaneo, S.W. of Foligno . The See also:cathedral has a See also:good See also:rose-window and possesses, like several of the other churches, 15th-See also:century paintings by Umbrian artists, especially See also:works by Niccolo Alunno . The town is still surrounded by walls . The See also:ancient Tadinum See also:lay z m. to the W. of the See also:modern town . It is mentioned in the Eugubine tablets (see See also:IGUvIUM) as a hostile See also:city against which imprecations are directed . In its neighbourhood See also:Narses defeated and slew See also:Totila in 552 . No ruins are now visible, though they seem to have been extant in the 17th century . The new town seems to have been founded in 1237 .

It was at first See also:

independent, but passed under Perugia in 1292, and later became dependent on the duchy of See also:Spoleto .

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