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VOLCEI (mod. BuccINO)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOLCEI (mod. BuccINO)  , an ancient
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town of Lucania, 2128 ft. above sea-level, the chief town of the
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independent tribe of the Volceiani, Vulcientes or Volcentani, whose territory was bounded N. by that of the Hirpini, W. and S. by Lucania and E. by the territory of Venusia . Some pre-
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Roman ruins still exist (Not . Scay., 1884, 115) . It became a municipium, and in A.D . 323 had an extensive territory attached to it, including the town of Numistro, the large Cyclopean walls of which may still be seen, 21 m. below Muro Lucano . Below the town is a well-preserved Roman
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bridge over the
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Tanager (mod . Tanagro) . See G . Patroni in Notizie degli scavi (1897), 183 .

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