See also: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
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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
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall). is from the designs of Vignola, and contains some ancient
See also:inscriptions
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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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Pope See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
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
.
In that See also: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)
.
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