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See also:LAKE See also:TRASIMENE (See also:Lat. Trasumeltus Lacus; Ital. Lago Trasimeno) , a See also:lake of See also:Umbria, See also:Italy, 12 M . W. from See also:Perugia, 843 ft. above See also:sea-level, 3o m. in circumference, and S M. to 14 M. across . Having no natural outlet, it was formerly subject to sudden rises, which occasioned inundations, and these in turn See also:malaria . An artificial outlet was completed in 1898 from the See also:south-See also:east corner of the lake to the Caina, a small tributary of the See also:Tiber . The See also:work, which is about 4 M. See also:long, cost only about £26,000 . It is intended to leave about 2500 acres of See also:land dry, and to convert another 2800 acres of marshy See also:soil into cultivable land . The lake contains three small islands: Isola See also:Maggiore, with a monastery, Isola Minore and Isola Polvese . See also:Standing on a promontory jutting out into the lake is the See also:town of See also:Castiglione del Lago, which possesses a See also:castle of the See also:dukes of Cornia, built by Galeazzo See also:Alessi, the architect of many of the Genoese palaces . See also:Napoleon I. formed a project for draining the lake, which may ultimately be adopted . Here See also:Hannibal disastrously defeated the See also:consul C . See also:Flaminius . Hannibal See also:left his See also:winter quarters in Cisalpine See also:Gaul in the See also:spring of 217 B.C. and crossed the See also:Apennines, probably by the pass now known as the Passo dei Mandrioli (from Forli: to Bibbiena in the upper valley of the See also:Arno) .
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