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TARQUINII (mod. Corneto Tarquinia, q.v.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TARQUINII (mod. Corneto Tarquinia, q.v.)  , an See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Etruria, See also:Italy, situated on a See also:hill overlooking the S.W. See also:coast of Italy, about 5 M . N.W. of it . The site of the See also:Roman See also:town is now deserted, its last remains having been destroyed by the inhabitants of Corneto in 13o7 . Scanty remains of walling and of buildings of the Roman See also:period exist above ground; traces of a large rectangular See also:platform were found in 1876, and See also:part of the thermae in 1829; it occupied the See also:summit of a hill defended by ravines, called Piano di Civita . It seems probable, See L . Dasti, Notizie Storiche archeologiche di Tarquinia e Corneto (See also:Rome, 1878) ; G . See also:Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (See also:London, 1883), i . 301 sqq.; Notizie degli Scavi, passim, especially 1885, 513 sqq.; E . Bormann in Corp . Incr . See also:Lat., xi . (See also:Berlin, 1888), p .

510 sqq.; G . Korte, s.v . " Etrusker " in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyklopadie, vi . 73o sqq . (T .

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