Comune di Ceva
Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Piedmont
Province	Cuneo (CN)
Mayor	Davide Alciati   Elected:2004-06-13
Elevation	385 m (1,263 ft)
Area	42 km² (16 sq mi)
Population (as of December 31, 2004)
- Total	5,795
- Density	138/km² (357/sq mi)
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	44°23′N, 08°02′E
Gentilic	Cebani or Cevani
Dialing code	0174
Postal code	12073
Patron	Madonna del Rosario, Santa Lucia[1]
Website: www.comune.ceva.cn.it

Ceva, the ancient Ceba is a small Italian town in the province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont, 49 km east of Cuneo. It lies on the right bank of the Tanaro on a wedge of land between that river and the Cevetta stream. Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... For other uses, see Piedmont (disambiguation). ... In Italy, a province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Cuneo is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 164th day of the year (165th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... FYI: The page is a Google translation. ... Cuneo is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. ... For other uses, see Piedmont (disambiguation). ... Cuneo (Coni in Piedmontese), with a population of c. ... The Tanaro (pronounced ‘Tànaro’), known as Tanarus in ancient times, is a 276 km-long river in north-western Italy. ...

History

In the pre-Roman period the territory around Ceva was inhabited by the branch of the mountain Ligures known as Epanterii. The Ligures (Ligurians) were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. ...

The upper Val Tanaro was Romanized in the second century BCE and it is known that the area was organized around a municipium. However, it is not certain that this was Ceba: Mombasiglio is also regarded as a candidate. In the first century CE Columella referred to a particular breed of cattle raised here, and Pliny the Elder praised its sheep’s milk cheese in his Natural History. The town is on the site of the old Roman road from Augusta Taurinorum via Pollentia to the coast and it is probable that there was a market here from which the cheese produced in the region was exported with Rome via the Ligurian ports of Vada Sabatia (the modern Vado Ligure) and/or Albingaunum (Albenga). Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... A municipium was the second highest class of a Roman city, and was inferior in status to the colonia. ... Country Italy Region Piedmont Province Province of Cuneo (CN) Mayor Elevation m Area 17. ... Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (Gades in Hispania Baetica, 4 AD - ca. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19th Century portrait. ... Naturalis Historia, 1669 edition, title page. ... Location Region Piedmont Province Torino Area   – Total   – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population   – Total (2002)   – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude   45°04N 7°40E (##.#######, -##.#######)1. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Vado Ligure is a town in the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy. ... Albingaunum (modern: Albenga) was the chief town of the Celtic Ligurian tribes. ...

In the Middle Ages it was a strong fortress defending the confines of Piedmont towards Liguria, but the fortifications on the rock above the town were demolished in 1800 by the French, to whom it had been ceded in 1796. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...

Landmarks

The sixteenth-century Castello of the Marchesi Pallavicino stands in an area of green parkland between the Tanaro and the Cevetta and comprises two small palaces: the original, red palazzina rossa and the later, white palazzina bianca. Pallavicino may be Ferrante Pallavicino, Italian writer Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, historian and cardinal Category: ...

Notes

Further reading

• (Italian) Ceva, is a site on the monuments and history of the town, well illustrated with images from various periods.
• Pliny on the cheese of Ceba in Book 11 of the Natural History:
  • (English) at Perseus
  • (Latin) at LacusCurtius (Search for ‘Cebanum’)

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