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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 912 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NUORO  , a

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town and episcopal see of
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Sardinia,
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Italy, in the
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province of
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Sassari, 382 m . E. of
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Macomer by
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rail . Pop . (1901) 6739 . It is situated 1905 ft. above
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sea-level in the
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east central portion of the
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island, amid
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fine scenery . Nuoro was the
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capital of a province from 1848 to 186o . It is connected by road with
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Fonni, Bitti and Orosei . An inscription discovered in situ about 13 M . W. of Nuoro in 1889, near Orotelli, has the letters FIN NVRR (fin(es)Nufr . . . ), which are explained as referring to the boundaries of the territory of Nuoro in
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Roman times, showing (what was not known before) that the name and the
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place are of Roman origin (F . Vivanet in Notizie degli scavi, 1889, 202) .

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