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The Grotta Campana.

Columns carried from Veii to Piazza Colonna, Rome, by Pope Gregory XVI.

Veii (pron. WAY-ee or VAY-ee; also Veius, (Italian Veio)) was, in ancient times, an important Etrurian city 16 km NNW of Rome, Italy; its site lies in the modern comune of Formello, in the Province of Rome.

Veii was the richest city of the Etruscan League, on the southern border of Etruria. As the nearest Etruscan city to Rome, it was continually at war with Rome for nearly 400 years. It eventually fell to the Roman general Camillus's army in 396 BC. Veii continued to be occupied after its capture by the Romans; Livia had an estate there, according to Suetonius. It was famous for its statuary including a statue of Tiberius (now in the Vatican), and the Apollo of Veii (now in the National Etruscan Museum).

The site was abandoned after ancient times, and it became forgotten until its rediscovery in the 17th century by the antiquarian Raffaello Fabretti. The remains of Veii today lie near the small village of Isola Farnese, but tombs and other remains have been discovered recently in adjacent areas in Formello and the Veio Natural reserve park.

Outside the remains of the city there are remnants of an apparent temple. Also tumuli and tombs have been found cut into the rock. The most famous is the Grotta Campana, uncovered in 1843, a chamber tomb with the eldest known Etruscan frescoes. There are additionally long tunnels leading into the mound of the city, which may corroborate Livy's account of the Roman victory in the Battle of Veii.

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Etruria — usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia (see Tyrrhenos) — was a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria.
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Comune di Roma

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Nickname: "The Eternal City"
Motto: "Senatus Populusque Romanus" (SPQR) (Latin)
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Il Canto degli Italiani
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In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word municipality.
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Country Italy
Region Lazio
Province Rome
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Nation Italy
Region Lazio
Capital Rome
Area 5,352 km
Population (2005) 4,013,057
Density 712
Comuni 121
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Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy and Corsica whom the ancient Romans called Etrusci or Tusci.
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Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. The republican period began with the overthrow of the Monarchy c.
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Battle of Veii, also known as the Siege of Veii^[1] is a battle of ancient Rome, approximately dated at 396 BC. The main source about it is Livy's Ab Urbe Condita.
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Marcus Furius Camillus (ca. 446- 365 BC) was a Roman soldier and statesman of patrician descent. According to Livy, he was censor in 403 BC, triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome.
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Livia Drusilla, after 14 AD called Livia Augusta (Classical Latin: LIVIA•DRVSILLA , later LIVIA•AVGVSTA ^[1]) (58 BC-AD 29) was the wife of Caesar Augustus (also known as Octavian) and the most powerful woman in the early Roman Empire, acting several
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On the Life of the Caesars^[1], in Latin De vita Caesarum, or as it is often known in English, The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire.
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Tiberius
Emperor of the Roman Empire

A bust of the Emperor Tiberius
Reign AD 14–AD 37
Full name Tiberius Caesar Augustus
(born Tiberius Claudius Nero)
Born November 16, 42 BC
Rome
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Inno e Marcia Pontificale (Italian)
Hymn and Pontifical March
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The Apollo of Veii is an over-life-size painted terracotta Etruscan statue of Apollo from Veii of c. 520 - 550 BC, in the 'international' Ionic or late-archaic Etruscan style. It was discovered in 1916, and is now on show in the National Etruscan Museum.
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The National Etruscan Museum (Italian - Museo Nazionale Etrusco) is a museum of the Etruscan civilization housed in the Villa Giulia in Rome, Italy.

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The Villa was built by the popes and remained their property until 1870 when, in the wake of the Risorgimento and
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Raphael Fabretti (1618 - January 7, 1700) was an Italian antiquary.

Born at Urbino in Umbria, he studied law at Cagli and Urbino, where he took his doctorate at the age of eighteen.
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A tumulus (plural tumuli, from the Latin word for mound or small hill, from the root tum- "to bulge, swell" also found in tumor and cognate with English thumb
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Tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial,
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A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. In the case of individual burials, the chamber is thought to signify a higher status for the interree than a simple grave.
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Fresco (plural either frescos or frescoes) is any of several related painting types. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco ("fresh"), which has Germanic origins.
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Titus Livius (traditionally 59 BC–AD 17^[1]), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental History of Rome, Ab Urbe condita
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Lars Tolumnius (d. 428 BC), the most famous king of the Etruscan city-state of Veii, a wealthy city located roughly ten miles northwest of Rome, is best remembered for initiating the conflict with the fledgeling Roman Republic that eventually destroyed his kingdom.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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