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Extract from the Aquileia Travel Guides:
Forty-five kilometres west of Trieste,
AQUILEIA
was established as a
Roman colony
in 181 BC, its location at the eastern edge of the Venetian plain - on the bank of a navigable river a few kilometres from the sea - being ideal for defensive and trading purposes. It became the nexus for all Rome's dealings with points east and north, and by 10 BC, when the Emperor Augustus received Herod the Great here, Aquileia was the capital of the Regio Venetia et Histria and the fourth most important city in Italy, after Rome, Milan and Capua. In 314 the famous Patriarchate of Aquileia was founded, and under the first patriarch,...
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