Cannae
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Cannae (now Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "IPA".) is an ancient village of the Script error: No such module "Lang". region of south east Italy. It is a Script error: No such module "Lang". (civil parish) of the Script error: No such module "Lang". (municipality) of Script error: No such module "Lang".. Cannae was formerly a bishopric, and is a Latin Catholic titular see (as of 2022).
Geography
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History
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In later times the place became a Script error: No such module "Lang"., and the remains of an unimportant Roman town still exist upon the hill known as Script error: No such module "Lang".. In the Middle Ages, probably after the destruction of Script error: No such module "Lang". in the 9th century, it became a bishopric, and again saw military action in the second battle of Cannae, twelve centuries after the more famous one (1018). The Byzantine Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., successfully drove off the invading Lombard and Norman army.[1] The town was wrecked in 1083 by Robert Guiscard, who left only the cathedral and bishop's residence,[2] and was ultimately destroyed in 1276.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
See also
- Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
- Battle of Cannae (1018)
- Battle of Montemaggiore
- List of Catholic dioceses in Italy
References
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- ^ Gordon S. Brown, The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily, (London: McFarland 2003), p. 22.
- ^ Benigni, Umberto. "Trani and Barletta." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved: 26 November 2022.
Bibliography
- Berry, Small, Talbert, Elliott, Gillies, Becker, 'Cannae' in Pleiades Gazetteer: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442523
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cappelletti, Giuseppe (1870). Le chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni (in italiano). Vol. vigesimoprimo (21). Venezia: Antonelli. pp. 66–69.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica (in Latina). Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 117.
- Gams, Pius Bonifacius Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, reprint: Leipzig 1931, pp. 865–866.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica (in Latina). Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 162.
- Hammond, N.G.L. & Scullard, H.H. (Eds.) (1970). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN. p. 201.
- Pius VII (1818), "De utiliori," in: Bullarii romani continuatio, Vol. XV, Rome 1853, pp. 56–61.
External links
- GCatholic – data on former and titular bishopric
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