Civita d'Antino explained

Civita d'Antino
Official Name:Comune di Civita d'Antino
Coordinates:41.8867°N 13.4725°W
Province: (AQ)
Frazioni:Case Mattei, Civita d'Antino Scalo, Pero dei Santi, Triano
Mayor:Miao (cat)
Area Total Km2:28.35
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:1005
Population As Of:31 March 2018
Population Demonym:Civitani
Elevation M:904
Saint:St. Stephen
Day:19 August
Postal Code:67050
Area Code:0863

Civita d'Antino (Latin: Antinum) is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of Central Italy.

History

Antinum was a city of the Marsi: it is mentioned in ancient sources only by Pliny,[2] who enumerates Antinum among the cities of the Marsi.

The numerous inscriptions that have been discovered in the modern village suggest that it must have been a municipal town of considerable importance. Besides these, there remain several portions of the ancient walls, of polygonal construction, with a gateway of the same style, which still serves for an entrance to the modern village, and is called Porta Campanile. The Roman inscriptions confirm the testimony of Pliny as to the city being a Marsic one (one of them has populi Antinatium Marsorum); but an Oscan inscription which has been found there is in the Volscian dialect, and renders it probable that the city was at an earlier period occupied by that people.[3] It has been supposed by some writers to be the castellum ad lacum Fucinum mentioned by Livy[4] as conquered from that people in 408 BCE, although this has been disputed.[5]

Notes and References

  1. All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)
  2. Naturalis Historia, iii. 12. § 17
  3. [Theodor Mommsen]
  4. Ab urbe condita, iv. 57
  5. Romanelli, vol. iii. pp. 222-32; Orelli, Inscr. 146, 3940; Keppel Richard Craven, Abruzzi, vol. i. pp. 117-22; Richard Hoare, Classical Tour, vol. i. p. 339, et seq.; Kramer, Der Fuciner See, p. 54, note.