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It was stormed by the Romans in 293 BC. It lay at the point of junction of four roads: the Via Caecilia, the Via Claudia Nova and two branches of the Via Salaria.

The Roman amphitheatre of Amiternum

There are considerable remains of an aqueduct, an amphitheatre and a theatre, all of which belong to the imperial period, while in the hill on which the village of S. Vittorino is built are some Christian catacombs.

Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclop�dia Britannica.

Categories: Roman towns and cities | 1911 Britannica

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Amiternum and Corfinium - Abruzzo Heritage - Year III, No. 16 (741 words)
	At the time of the Romans, the city moved to the bottom of the hill of San Vittorino, in the middle of the Aterno valley, where today the remains of the most important monuments can been admired.
	Amiternum became part of the Roman establishment in 290 BC; it was a "prefectura" until the Augustan Age, later on probably a "municipium", as epigraphic sources seem to confirm.
	Formed of two terraces, it hosts in its higher part a small temple dating back to the 1st century BC and on the lower part a monumental fountain.

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