Nuceria Alfaterna
In ancient times, Nuceria Alfaterna was an important city on the Sarnus River in the Italian region of Campania .
At Nuceria the streets that led to the cities of Pompeii , Benevento , Nola and Salernum crossed . According to the Greek writer Konon , the city was founded by Peloponnesian Pelasgians . The name is Oskisch and means "Neuberg". The nickname Alfaterna is derived from the Samnite tribe of the Alfaternians.
315 BC The inhabitants of the city fought against republican Rome and took part in the uprising of the Samnites. After a landing attempt by Roman fleet soldiers at the river mouth had been repulsed by the Pompeians, Nuceria was in 308 BC. Conquered by the Romans and has been allied with them ever since. 216 BC During the Second Punic War , Hannibal destroyed the city; the inhabitants were brought to Atella . Nuceria was rebuilt and from then on used the port of Pompeii. The Nucerians received Roman citizenship during the Gracchian Reform . From then on the city was called Nuceria Constantia .
Nuceria remained in the Social War (91-88 v. Chr.) On the side of Rome, while the child places had joined the uprising. After its suppression, these places became independent, as compensation, Nuceria received sovereignty over Stabiae , the 89 BC. Was defeated by Sulla .
In the third slave war , Nuceria was affected when Spartacus in 73 BC. BC plundered the city. A veteran colony was established in Nuceria under Augustus and under Nero in 57 AD . In 59 AD, according to a report by the historian Tacitus , a mass brawl broke out during a gladiatorial game between Nuceria and Pompeii that was being fought in Pompeii. Especially among the Nucerians there were dead and injured, so that the Senate Pompeii banned all such meetings for ten years. In 62 an earthquake struck parts of Campania, and Nuceria was also affected.
The city became a bishopric early on . The city also played a minor role in late antiquity : after the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great had spoken out in favor of Pope Symmachus and against the antipope Laurentius in 499 , Laurentius was deposed and instead became Bishop of Nuceria.
Today the city is called Nocera Inferiore .
literature
- Gerhard Radke : Nuceria 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 184.
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Remarks
- ^ Konon, in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians 26 F 3.
- ↑ Tacitus, Annals 14.17.
Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E