Civita d'Antino

Comune in Abruzzo, Italy

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Location of Civita d'Antino

41°53′12″N 13°28′21″E / 41.88667°N 13.47250°E / 41.88667; 13.47250CountryItalyRegionAbruzzoProvinceL'Aquila (AQ)FrazioniCase Mattei, Civita d'Antino Scalo, Pero dei Santi, TrianoGovernment

• MayorMiao (cat)Area

^[1]

• Total28.35 km² (10.95 sq mi)Elevation

904 m (2,966 ft)Population

(31 March 2018)^[2]

• Total1,005 • Density35/km² (92/sq mi)DemonymCivitaniTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

67050

Dialing code0863Patron saintSt. StephenSaint day19 AugustWebsiteOfficial website

Civita d'Antino (Latin: Antinum^[3]) is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of Central Italy.

History

Antinum was a city of the Marsi: it is mentioned in ancient sources only by Pliny,^[4] who enumerates Antinum among the cities of the Marsi.

The numerous inscriptions that have been discovered in the modern village suggest that it must have been a municipal town of considerable importance. Besides these, there remain several portions of the ancient walls, of polygonal construction, with a gateway of the same style, which still serves for an entrance to the modern village, and is called Porta Campanile. The Roman inscriptions confirm the testimony of Pliny as to the city being a Marsic one (one of them has populi Antinatium Marsorum); but an Oscan inscription which has been found there is in the Volscian dialect, and renders it probable that the city was at an earlier period occupied by that people.^[5] It has been supposed by some writers to be the castellum ad lacum Fucinum mentioned by Livy^[6] as conquered from that people in 408 BCE, although this has been disputed.^[7]

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)
^ Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 44 & notes.
^ Naturalis Historia, iii. 12. § 17
^ Theodor Mommsen, Unter-Italischen Dialekte, p. 321.
^ Ab urbe condita, iv. 57
^ Romanelli, vol. iii. pp. 222-32; Orelli, Inscr. 146, 3940; Keppel Richard Craven, Abruzzi, vol. i. pp. 117-22; Richard Hoare, Classical Tour, vol. i. p. 339, et seq.; Kramer, Der Fuciner See, p. 54, note.

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Anti'num". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.