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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PONTREMOLI  , a

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town and
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bishop's see of the
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province of
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Massa and
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Carrara,
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Tuscany,
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Italy, in the upper valley of the Magra, 25 M . N. by E. of
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Spezia by
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rail and 49 M . S.S.W. of
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Parma, 843 ft. above
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sea-level . Pop . (19o1), 4107 (town); 14,570 (
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commune) . It has a 17th-
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century
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cathedral . The
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church of the Annunziata with its Augustinian monastery is interesting . There are also
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mineral springs . The town, which is well situated among the mountains, was an
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independent
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republic in the 12th and 13th centuries, and in 1495 was sacked by the troops of
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Charles VIII. of
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France . It was much damaged by an
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earthquake in 1834 .

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