Atella
 
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Atella was an ancient city in the Italian Campania countryside between Capua and Naples near the present-day municipalities of Orta di Atella and Sant'Arpino .
Atella was an Oscar city and allied with nearby Capua until about 313 BC. BC came under the control of the Roman Republic . During the Second Punic War it closed in 216 BC. Temporarily at Hannibal ; the leaders of the city were executed for it after the reconquest by the Romans. Later Atella, where the Romans had settled refugees from Nuceria Alfaterna , became a Roman municipality ; its inhabitants belonged to the Falerna tribe . The titular bishopric of Atella of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric .
The city's name is best known for the popular comedies named after it, the Atellanae (fabulae) .
literature
- Gerhard Radke: Atella. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 675.
Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius 26:16 .
- ^ Appian , Hannibalischer Krieg 49.
Coordinates: 40 ° 57 ' N , 14 ° 15' E