The Pontine Marshes (/ˈpɒntaɪn/ PON-tyne, US also /ˈpɒntiːn/ PON-teen; Italian: Agro Pontino [ˈaːɡro ponˈtiːno], formerly also Paludi Pontine; Latin:...

Samnites reacted with military force. Between Capua and Rome lay the Pontine Marshes (Pomptinae paludes), a swamp infested with malaria. A tortuous coastal...

(from pons, "bridge") Pontine Marshes, a region of Italy near Rome Pontine Islands, islands of Italy near Circeo Search for "pontine" on Wikipedia. All pages...

mountain promontory that marks the southwestern limit of the former Pontine Marshes, located on the southwest coast of Italy near San Felice Circeo. At...

predominantly in the Maremma region of Tuscany and northern Lazio, or in the Pontine Marshes to the south. The buttero habitually rides a horse of one of the working...

a battle during the Iran–Iraq War Battle of the Marshes (Italy), the draining of the Pontine Marshes by the Fascists in Italy, also known as "Battle for...

It was placed in the Pomentine plain, between the Latins and the Pontine marshes, which took their name from the plain. The Volsci were divided in Antiates...

collection A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes The canis pastoralis of Classical antiquity, in the Vatican Museums;...

Pontine Marshes of southern Lazio where they populated new towns such as Latina, Aprilia and Pomezia, forming there the so-called "Venetian-Pontine"...

the project under Prime Minister Benito Mussolini which drained the Pontine Marshes and converted them to agriculture. The town plan was designed by engineer...

Lidanus was a Benedictine abbot credited with draining the Pontine Marshes, Italy, and for founding Sezze Abbey in the Papal States. He died at Monte...

Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost edge of the Pontine Marshes, a vast malarial tract of wetlands. The basis for the port, the only...

Italy"). Located near the Via Flacca, but also on the edge of the Pontine Marshes, Roman Spelunca (Latin for cave or grotto) was originally only known...

formally known as Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang Agro Pontino, the Pontine Marshes of central Italy Agro Romano, Latin for the Ager Romanus, agricultural...

them and the sea, on a site commanding the Pontine Marshes (urbs prona in paludes, "a city surrounded by marshes", as Livy called it) and also possessing...

included areas such as southern Italy, the island of Sardinia, the Pontine Marshes, the lower regions of coastal Etruria and the city of Rome along the...

Senator Raffaele Bastianelli, to preserve the last remains of the Pontine Marshes which were being reclaimed in that period. It is the only national...

speculations. The town was founded in the 1940s, after the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes; population at the time was mostly composed of fishermen. The economy...

(among them Littoria and Sabaudia) on land reclaimed by draining the Pontine Marshes. In Sardinia, a model agricultural town was founded and named Mussolinia...

Way) followed along the west coast but south of Rome ran into the Pontine Marshes, which the Germans had flooded. Highway 6 (the Via Casilina) ran through...

away topsoil. Also, ditches were used to drain swamps such as the Pontine Marshes and subterranean channels were used to drain marshy channels. Drainage...

tribe occupying the Volsci Mountains overlooking and including the Pontine Marshes. During the final revolt of the Volsci, the Romans had sacked and leveled...

small rivers would overflow, swamping the terrain (Tuscany and the Pontine Marshes were deemed impassable in antiquity). The existence of Roman civilization...

starting-point of a canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pontine Marshes, and was used instead of it at the time of Strabo and Horace (see Appian...

viewpoint for a painting called Pius VI Visiting the Drainage Works at the Pontine Marshes (now in Peter & Paul Fortress, Saint-Petersburg) and in 1786 Ducros...

the settlers to the new cities founded after the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, while on 5 May 1936 there was the solemn flag-raising in Addis Ababa...

Cypros. A fifth child (male), drowned at a young age – likely in the Pontine Marshes near Rome, after Herod's sons had been sent to receive educations in...

(1932–1933). He was one of the protagonists of the land reclamation of the Pontine Marshes. "Valentino Orsolini Cencelli". Chamber of Deputies. Ciccozzi, Erminia...

commissioned to make plans for the Pope's proposed draining of the Pontine Marshes. He also dissected cadavers, making notes for a treatise on vocal cords;...

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