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Brindisi Cathedral. Brindisi (US: / ˈ b r ɪ n d ɪ z i, ˈ b r iː n-/ BRIN-diz-ee, BREEN-; [3] [4] Italian: ⓘ) [note 1] is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
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The siege of Brundisium was an early military confrontation of Caesar's Civil War. Taking place in March 49 BC, it saw the forces of Gaius Julius Caesar 's Populares besiege the Italian city of Brundisium on the coast of the Adriatic Sea which was held by a force of Optimates under the command of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus .
Tarentum fell to the Romans that same year, who proceeded to consolidate their rule over all of Italy. [13] The Romans pushed the Via Appia to the port of Brundisium in 264 BC. The itinerary from Beneventum was now Aeculanum, Forum Aemilii , Venusia, Silvium, Tarentum, Uria and Brundisium. The Roman Republic was the government of Italy, for the ...
The Romans used it to transport their troops eastwards. The legions marched to Brundisium (now Brindisi), had only a one-day sea voyage to modern Albania territory and then could move eastwards following the Via Egnatia. The Strait of Otranto on a map from the early 17th century
244 BCE – Brundisium becomes a Roman colony. [2] 190 BCE – Appian Way (Rome-Brundisium) built (approximate date). 49 BCE – The Siege of Brundisium occurs during Caesar's civil war. Caesar fails to prevent Pompey from crossing the Adriatic Sea. [1] 40 BCE - The Treaty of Brundisium is signed after skirmishes between troops of Octavian and ...
The province, according to the Geological Map of Italy, prepared by the Geological Survey of Italy, is composed of various types of land: in the central-southern area there is a predominance of dolomitic limestone (present generally in the inhabited zone from the plateau of the Murgia), small eluvial deposits, sand, clay, grey silted marshes ...
Strabo indicates correctly that traveling to Beneventum from Brundisium via the route of the later Via Traiana was a good day shorter than the old Republican road, Via Appia. [4] Although the actual measurement shows Via Appia to be 203 miles (327 km) and Via Traiana 205 miles (330 km) from Brundisium to Beneventum, the difference lies in their ...