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See also:TODI (anc. Tuder)
, a See also:town and episcopal see of the See also:province of See also:Perugia, See also:Italy, 28 m
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S. of Perugia by road, on a steep See also: Just outside the town on the See also:west is the See also:pilgrimage church of S . Maria della Consolazione, one of the finest buildings of the See also:Renaissance, and often wrongly attributed to See also:Bramante . See also:Con-temporary documents prove that the interior was begun in 1508 by Cola Matteuccio da Caprarola, and the exterior completed in 1516–1524 by Ambrogio da Milano and See also:Francesco di Vito See also:Lombardo; the slender See also:dome was not added till 1606; its See also:plan is a See also:Greek See also:cross . S . Fillippo in the town, a church of the See also:early 16th See also:century, betrays the See also:influence of the Consolazione in details . During the See also:period of its See also:independence, the town struck coins with the See also:legend Tutere . It is hardly mentioned in See also:history until it received See also:Roman citizenship in the Social See also:War . See also:Crassus took it in 83 Inc.; and a See also:colony was founded there by Octavian, including some soldiers of the 41st See also:legion, which only existed in his See also:time, after which it See also:bore the name Colonia Julia fida Tuder . It was a station on the road between See also:America and Perusia, but otherwise is hardly mentioned . See also:Narses won a victory over the Goths near See also:Todi in 552, and See also:Totila lost his See also:life . In the See also:middle ages it had frequent struggles with Perugia, and its obedience to the church until the 16th century was somewhat fitful . The See also:village of Vicus Martis Tudertium See also:lay 9 m. to the east on the Via See also:Flaminia . Several See also:inscriptions mention it (Corpus inscript. See also:lat. xi . 694) . |
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