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Pontecorvo
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a city of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, on the Garigliano, about 48 m. from Caserta and 3 m. from Aquino on the railway from Rome to Naples. Pop. (1901), 10,518 (town); 12,492 (commune). The town is approached by a triumphal arch adorned with a statue of Pius IX. The principality of Pontecorvo (about 40 sq. m. in extent), once an independent state, belonged alternately to the Tomacelli and the abbots. of Monte Cassino. Napoleon bestowed it on Bernadotte in 1806,. and in 1810 it was incorporated with the French Empire.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pontecorvo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pontecorvo.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pontecorvo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/pontecorvo.html. 1910.
