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Pollentia,
known today as
Pollenzo (Piedmontese: Polèns), was an
ancient city on the left bank of the Tanaro. It is now a
frazione (parish) of Bra in...
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Pollentia (Catalan: Pol·lèntia) was a
Roman city
founded by
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus in the
present city of Alcúdia,
allegedly in the year...
- and then the city of
Pollentia. From
Pollentia, it was
possible to view both the bay of Pollença and the bay of Alcúdia.
Pollentia served as a
guard against...
- The
Battle of
Pollentia was
fought on 6
April 402 (Easter)
between the
Romans under Stilicho and the
Visigoths under Alaric I,
during the
first Gothic...
- "Pollença" can be
traced back to the name of the
Roman settlement of "
Pollentia", the
excavated remains of
which lie
several kilometers away, at the modern...
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Alaric to
break the siege. Two
battles were fought. The
first was at
Pollentia on 4
April 402 (Easter Sunday),
where Stilicho (according to Claudian)...
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attack on
Easter Sunday in 402,
Stilicho defeated Alaric at the
Battle of
Pollentia,
capturing his camp and his wife.
Alaric himself managed to
escape with...
- on the
south of the island, and
Pollentia in the
northeast – on the site of a
Phoenician settlement.
Whilst Pollentia acted as a port to
Roman cities...
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Spanish colonists on the
larger island, and
founded the
cities of
Palma and
Pollentia. The
islands belonged,
under the
Roman Empire, to the
conventus of Carthago...
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forced them to lift the
siege and
retreat to a more
convenient terrain in
Pollentia,
where they
battled the
Roman army. "View of the
siege of Asti, 1615 (Asti...
