MEVANIA (mod. Bevagna)  , an ancient town of Umbria, on the river Clitumnus and on the Via Flaminia, 8 m . W.S.W. of Forum Flaminii, and 5 m . W. of Fulginium (Foligno), 738 ft. above sea-level . There are remains of a temple near the north gate, and of an amphitheatre built into the modern houses . The wails, which have disappeared, were, according to Pliny (Hist . Nat. xxxv . 173), built of unbaked bricks . In 310 B.C. the consul Fabius broke the Umbrian forces here; but other-wise it is not mentioned until the 1st century A.D . In 69 the army of Vitellius awaited here the advance of Vespasian . Its pastures near the river and its white oxen are mentioned by Propertius, whose family belonged to Asisium (mod . Assisi) and after him by Silius Italicus, Lucan and Statius . The town was a municipium .

The churches of S . Michele Arcangelo and S . Nicolo are Romanesque buildings of the 12th century .