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INDUSTRIA (mod. Monteu da Po)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 508 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INDUSTRIA (mod. Monteu da Po)  , an See also:ancient See also:town of See also:Liguria, 20 M . N.E. of See also:Augusta Taurinorum . Its See also:original name was Bodincomagus, from the Ligurian name of the Padus (mod . Po), Bodincus, i.e. bottomless (Plin . Hist . Nat. iii . 122), and this still appears on See also:inscriptions of the See also:early imperial See also:period . It stood on the right See also:bank of the See also:river, which has now changed its course over r m. to the See also:north . It was a flourishing town; with municipal rights, as excavations (which have brought tc. See also:light the See also:forum, See also:theatre, See also:baths, &c.) have shown, but appears to have been deserted in the 4th See also:century A.D . See A . Fabietti in Atti della Societe), di Archeologia di Torino, iii, 17 seq.; Th . See also:Mommsen in Corp .

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Lat. v.•((See also:Berlin, 1877), p . 845; E . Ferrero in Notizie degli Scavi (1903), p . 43 .

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