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IVREA (anc. Eporedia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IVREA (anc. Eporedia)  , a
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town and episcopal see of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of
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Turin, from which it is 38 m . N.N.E. by
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rail and 27 M.
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direct, situated 770 ft. above sea-level, on the Dora Baltea at the point where it leaves the mountains . Pop . (1901) 6047 (town), 11,696 (commune) . The
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cathedral was built between 993 and 1005; the gallery round the back of the apse and the crypt have plain cubical capitals of this period . The two campanili flanking the apse at each end of the side aisle are the
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oldest example of this architectural arrangement . The isolated tower, which is all that remains of the ancient abbey of S . Stefano, is slightly later . The hill above the town is crowned by the imposing Castello delle Quattro Torri, built in 1358, and now a prison . One of the four towers was destroyed by
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lightning in 1676 . A
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tramway runs to Santhia . The ancient Eporedia,
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standing at the junction of the roads from
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Augusta Taurinorum and Vercellae, at the point where the road to Augusta Praetoria enters the narrow valley of the Duria (Dora Baltea), was a military position of considerable importance belonging to the Salassi who inhabited the whole upper valley of the Duria .

The importance of the

gold-mines of the
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district led to its seizure by the Romans in 143 B.C . The centre of the
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mining industry seems to have been Victumulae (see TIclNuM), until in 10o B.C. a colony of
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Roman citizens was founded at Eporedia itself; but the prosperity of this was only assured when the Salassi were finally defeated in 25 B.C. and Augusta Praetoria founded . There are remains of a theatre of the time of the Antonines and the Ponte Vecchio rests on Roman
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foundations . In the
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middle ages Ivrea was the capital of a Lombard duchy,and later of a marquisate; both Berengar II . (95o) and Arduin (1002) became kings of Italy for a short period . Later it submitted to the marquises of 1Vlonferrato, and in the middle of the 14th century passed to the house of Savoy . (T . As.) IVRY-SUR-SEINE, a town of
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northern France, in the department of Seine, near the
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left
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bank of the Seine, less than 1 m . S.S.E. of the fortifications of Paris . Pop . (1906) 30,532 . Ivry has a large hospital for incurables .

It manufactures

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organs, earthenware, wall-paper and rubber, and has
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engineering
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works, breweries, and oil-works, its trade being facilitated by a
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port on the Seine . The town is dominated by a fort of the older
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line of defence of Paris .

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