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Palestrina (ancient
Praeneste;
Ancient Gr****: Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is a
modern Italian city and
comune (muni****lity) with a po****tion of
about 22...
- The
Praeneste fibula (the "brooch of Palestrina") is a
golden fibula or brooch,
today housed in the
Pigorini National Museum of
Prehistory and Ethnography...
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received a new name
having been
extended as far as
Praeneste (modern Palestrina). Once past
Praeneste the road
continued towards the
Apennines and the source...
- the
siege of
Praeneste and
rescue consul Gaius Marius, who was
considered the
heart of the anti-Sullan cause.
Breaking the
siege of
Praeneste turned out...
- Cuno of
Praeneste (died 9
August 1122) was a
German Cardinal and
papal legate, an
influential diplomatic figure of the
early 12th century,
active in France...
- in Rome
during his
lifetime (CIL VI, 10048 = ILS 5287) and
another in
Praeneste after his
retirement there (CIL XIV, 288) are the sole
records of his...
- from
caecus "blind") was a son of Vulcan, and the
legendary founder of
Praeneste (modern Palestrina). King
Caeculus appears in Book VII of Virgil's Aeneid...
- 1089–1099 (pseudocardinal)
Milone 1095/98–1104
vacant 1104–1107 Cuno of
Praeneste 1107–1122
Guillaume Praenestinus 1123–1137
Johannes 1130–1134 (pseudocardinal)...
- Athens, and
finally the
villa of
triumvir Pompey in the
Alban Hills, near
Praeneste, Italy.
Ptolemy XII
spent roughly up to a year
there on the outskirts...
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ambushed eight legions sent to
relieve Praeneste; the
Samnites and the
Lucanians also rose,
moving to
relieve Praeneste or join with
Carbo in the north; Sulla...
