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RICINA

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICINA  , an

ancient
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town of
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Picenum, Italy, 3 M . N.W. of the
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modern
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Macerata, on the banks of the
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river Potenza, in a fertile valley . It was probably a municipium until it was refounded by Pertinax and Septimius Severus, after which it
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bore the name Colonia Helvia Ricina Pertinax, The site is now deserted, but considerable ruins of a theatre and remains of
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baths and other buildings (all in
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brickwork of the imperial. period) still exist; also the fragments of an ancient
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bridge over the Potenza .

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