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MASSA (Town) TOSCANA
Massa surnamed Massa Veternensis, a town of Etruria, situated about 12 miles from
the sea on a hill overlooking the wide plain of the Maremma: hence it is now called
Massa Marittima. In the middle ages it was a considerable city and the see of
a bishop; but it is not mentioned by any ancient author earlier than Ammianus
Marcellinus (xiv. 11. § 27), who tells us that it was the birthplace of the emperor
Constantius Gallus. From the epithet Veternensis, it would seem probable that
there was an Etruscan city of the name of Veternum in its neighbourhood; and,
according to Mr. Dennis, there are signs of an Etruscan population on a hill called
the Poggio di Vetreta, a little to the SE. of the modern town. (Dennis, Etruria,
vol. ii. p. 218.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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