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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PENNE  , a

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town and episcopal see of Italy, in the province of
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Teramo, 26 m . S.E. of Teramo, and 16 m. inland from the Adriatic, 1437 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (Igor), 10,394 . The
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cathedral has been much altered; in its
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treasury is some
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fine 13th (?) century silversmiths'
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work; the church of S . Giovanni has a fine
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cross by Nicola di Guardiagrele, and that of S . Maria in Colleromano, outside the town, a Romanesque portal . Many of the houses have fine terra-cotta friezes . It occupies the site of the ancient Pinna, the chief city of the
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Vestini, who entered into
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alliance with Rome in 3or B.C. and remained faithful to her through the Hannibalic
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wars and even during the revolt of the
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Italian allies in go B.C . No remains of the
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Roman period exist, even the city walls being entirely
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medieval . See G . Colasanti, Pinna (Rome, 1907) ; V .

Pindi, Monumenti degli Abruzzi (

Naples, 1889, pp . 565 sqq.) .

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