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Title: CALATIA LECTORI: SUM PIETATE POTENS, ROMAEQUE COAEVA VETUSTAE: TULLIUS, ET NOSTRAE ID DICENT MONUMENTA RUINAE 1597. Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1598 Caiazzo is a city in the province of Caserta (Campania) in Italy. It is located on the right bank of the Volturnus, some 20 km north-east of Capua. The ancient Caiatia was already in the hands of the Romans in 306 BC, and since in the 3rd century BC it issued copper coins with a Latin legend it must have had the civitas sine suffragio. In the Social War it rebelled from Rome, and its territory was added to that of Capua by Sulla. In the imperial period, however, we find it once more a municipium. Caiazzo has remains of Cyclopean walls, and under the Piazza del Mercato is a large Roman cistern, which still provides a good water supply. The episcopal see was founded in AD 966. The place is frequently confused with Calatia. "...Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum, stands as one of the greatest monuments of late 16th and early 17th Century European cartography. Published in Cologne, Germany in a series of six volumes between 1572 and 1617/8, and, when finally completed, comprising nearly 550 City views and plans, the Civitates is also one of the most valuable sources for the study of Renaissance urban cartography. " - Roderick M Barron. Folds as given.
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