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NEPI (anc. Nepet or Nepete)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 385 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEPI (anc. Nepet or Nepete)  , a See also:town and episcopal see of See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Rome, 71 m . S.W. of the town of Civita Castellana, 738 ft. above See also:sea-level Pop . (See also:root) 2973 . The site, surrounded by ravines and accessible only on the W., is naturally strong and characteristic of an See also:Etruscan town; on this See also:side there is a considerable fragment of the See also:ancient Etruscan See also:wall, built of rectangular blocks of tuf a (whether the See also:rest of the site was protected by walls is uncertain), and a ruined See also:castle, erected by See also:Antonio da See also:Sangallo the See also:elder in 1499, for See also:Pope See also:Alexander VI., and restored by Pope See also:Paul III . The municipio (town See also:hall). is from the designs of Vignola, and contains some ancient See also:inscriptions . The See also:cathedral was burnt down by the See also:French in 1789 and restored in 1831 . A mile and a See also:half E.N.E. is the Romanesque See also:church of S Elia, founded about A.D . 1000, with frescoes of the See also:period . It contains a See also:pulpit of the See also:time of Pope See also:Gregory IV . (827-844), the sculptures:of which are scattered about the church (F . Mazzanti in Nuovo Bollettino d'Archaeologia Cristiana, 1896, 34) . Nepet had become See also:Roman before 386 B.C., when See also:Livy speaks of it and Sutrium as the keys of See also:Etruria .

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year it was surrendered to the Etruscans and recovered by the See also:Romans, who beheaded the authors of its surrender . It became a See also:colony in 383 B.C . It was among the twelve Latin colonies that refused further help to Rome in 209 B.C . After the Social See also:War it became a See also:municipium . It is hardly mentioned in imperial times, except as a station on the road (Via Amerina) which diverged from the Via See also:Cassia near the See also:modern Settevene and ran to See also:Ameria and Tuder . In the 8th See also:century A.D. it was for a See also:short while the seat of a dukedom . See G . See also:Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London, 1883, i . 82) . (T .

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