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  • 1Capua — [kap′yo͞o ə] town in S Italy, near Naples: pop. 19,000: ancient city of Capua (destroyed A.D. 841) was on a nearby site …

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  • 2Capua — Infobox CityIT img coa =Capua Stemma.png official name = Comune di Capua name=Capua mapx=41.02 mapy=14.15 region = Campania province = Caserta (CE) elevation m = area total km2 = 30 population as of = December 31, 2004 population total = 43139… …

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  • 3Capua — Cap•u•a [[t]ˈkæp yu ə[/t]] n. geg a town in S Italy, N of Naples: near site of ancient city of Capua. 18,053 …

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  • 4CAPUA —    (11), a fortified city in Campania, on the Volturno, 27 m. N. of Naples, where, or rather near which, in a place of the same name, Hannibal, at the invitation of the citizens, retired with his army to spend the winter after the battle of Cannæ …

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  • 5Battle of Capua (212 BC) — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=First Battle of Capua partof=the Second Punic War caption= date=212 BC place=Capua, present day Italy casus= territory= result=Carthaginian victory combatant1=Carthage combatant2=Roman Republic… …

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  • 6Principality of Capua — The Principality of Capua (Latin: Principatus Capuae or Capue, Italian Principato di Capua) was a Lombard state in Southern Italy, usually de facto independent, but under the varying suzerainty of Western and Eastern Roman Empires. It was… …

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  • 7Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capua is an archdiocese (originally a suffragan bishopric) of the Roman Catholic Church in Italy, but its archbishop no longer holds metropolitan rank and has no ecclesiastical province. Its see is in Capua, in… …

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  • 8Marcellus of Capua — Saint Marcellus Born third or fourth century Capua, Campania Died third or fourth century Capua, Campania Honored in Roman Catholic Church Canonized pre congregation …

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  • 9Jordan I of Capua — Jordan I ( it. Giordano) (died 1091), count of Aversa and prince of Capua from 1078 to his death, was the eldest son and successor of Prince Richard I of Capua and Fressenda, a daughter of Tancred of Hauteville and his second wife, also named… …

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  • 10Diana (mythology) — Ancient Roman religion Marcus Aurelius (head covered) sacrificing at the Temple of Jupiter …

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