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AVGOUSTA TAVRIKI (Ancient city) PIEMONTE
Augusta Taurinorum (Augousta Taurinon, Ptol.: Torino or Turin), the
capital of the Ligurian tribe of the Taurini, was situated on the river Padus,
at its junction with the Duria Minor or Dora Riparia. It was at this point that
the Padus began to be navigable, and to this circumstance, combined with its position
on the line of high road leading from Mediolanum and Ticinum to the passage of
the Cottian Alps (Mont Genevre), the city doubtless owed its early importance.
It is probable that the chief city of the Taurini, which was taken by Hannibal
immediately after his descent into Italy (Polyb. iii. 60), and the name of which,
according to Appian (Annib. 5), was Taurasia, was the same that became a Roman
colony under Augustus, and received from him the name of Augusta. The only subsequent
mention of it in history is during the civil war between Otho and Vitellius, A.D.
69, when a considerable part of it was burnt by the soldiers of the latter (Tac.
Hist. ii. 66); but we learn both from Pliny and Tacitus, as well as from numerous
inscriptions, that it retained its colonial rank, and was a place of importance
under the Roman empire. (Plin. iii. 17. s. 21; Ptol. iii. 1. § 35; Gruter. Inscr.
pp. 458. 8, 495. 5; Maffei, Mus. Veron. pp. 209--233; Millin. Voy. en Piemont,
vol. i. p. 254.)
The name of Augusta seems to have been gradually dropped, and the
city itself came to be called by the name of the tribe to which it belonged: thus
we find it termed in the Itineraries simply Taurini, from whence comes its modern
name of Torino or Turin. It continued after the fall of the Roman empire to be
a place of importance, and became the capital of Piedmont, as it now is of the
kingdom of Sardinia. With the exception of the inscriptions which have been mentioned
above, it retains no vestiges of antiquity.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
IVREA (Town) PIEMONTE
The modern Ivrea, a town in Gallia Cisalpina, on the Duria, in the territory of the Salassi, colonized by the Romans, B.C. 100, to serve as a bulwark against the neighbouring Alpine tribes.
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