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Benevento
[ ben-uh-ven-toh; Italian be-ne-ven-taw ]
noun
- a city in N Campania, in S Italy: monumental arch erected by Trajan.
Benevento
/ ˌbɛnəˈvɛntəʊ /
noun
- a city in S Italy, in N Campania: at various times under Samnite, Roman, Lombard, Saracen, Norman, and papal rule. Pop: 61 791 (2001) Ancient nameBeneventumˌbɛnəˈvɛntʊm
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The town of Benevento had offered no resistance to Charles, but he gave it up to pillage, and massacred its inhabitants.
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The Pope was still an exile in Benevento,146 and did not dare to reoccupy Rome.
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Charles Talleyrand, Prince of Benevento, and perhaps the greatest diplomat in history.
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Domitian and Titus erected a small obelisk of red granite nine feet high, which now stands in the cathedral square of Benevento.
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This brave man fell into the hands of the emperor, who sought to use him in a stratagem to obtain possession of Benevento.
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