The Via Claudia Nova was an ancient Roman road , built in 47 AD by the Roman emperor Claudius to connect the Via Caecilia with the Via Valeria in central Italy .
5-614: There is no precise information about the road's route: according to some sources, it started from Amiternum , while for others it began at Civitatomassa, currently a frazione of Scoppito . It joined the Via Claudia Valeria near Popoli , at the confluence of the Tirino and Aterno rivers. It passed, among the others, through the ancient cities of Peltuinum , and Ocriticum , where a temple dedicated to Jupiter existed. This Italian road or road transport-related article
10-456: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Amiternum Amiternum was an ancient Sabine city, then Roman city and later bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see in the central Abruzzo region of modern Italy , located 9 km (5.6 mi) from L'Aquila . Amiternum was the birthplace of the historian Sallust (86 BC). The site, in the upper Aterno valley, was one of
15-539: The first century BC depicts the Roman funeral procession or pompa . The modern name of the locality, San Vittorino, recalls the martyr Victorinus, who is looked on as the first bishop of Amiternum, allegedly of the time of the persecution by Roman Emperor Nerva (AD 30-98), although other sources put the bishopric's foundation in ca. AD 300. Around AD 400 it gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Pitinum . Other bishops of Amiternum include Quodvultdeus, who encouraged
20-683: The most important of Sabinum. Amiternum was defeated 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 . There are considerable remains of an amphitheatre and a theatre, all of which belong to the imperial period, while on the hill of the surrounding village of San Vittorino there are some Christian catacombs . A well known Roman funerary relief of
25-551: The religious veneration of Victorinus by constructing his tomb, Castorius, who is mentioned by Pope Gregory I , Saint Cetteus , martyred by the Lombards in 597, and Leontius, a brother of Pope Stephen II . The last known bishop is Ludovicus, who took part in a synod held in Rome in 1069. Circa AD 1060, the bishopric was suppressed and its territory merged into the Rieti . In the mid-13th century
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