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MARRUVIUM (San Benedetto dei Marsi) Aquila prov., Abruzzi, Italy.

This was the capital of the Marsi to the E of Fucinus Lacus, which is now dried up. The boundaries of the city have been determined but not the interior plan. Parts of several public buildings, including the amphitheater, remain visible, and parts of two large sepulchral monuments whose nuclei, in mortared masonry, are preserved.

Much archaeological and epigraphic evidence from the Republican period comes from the urban area and from the surrounding countryside. The territory of the Marsi, like that of the Paeligni, was rich in minor settlements having the character of vici. In the last centuries of the Republic, Marruvium must have prevailed over the others since in the course of the 1st c. B.C. it obtained the designation municipium.

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C. Letta, I Marsi ed il Fucino nell' antichità (1972).

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The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.

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