Vercelli
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- Names
Vercelli
Vercellae
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on the Sesia river; was chief town of the Ligurian Libici people; taken by Rome & noted for two battles nearby, against Hannibal (218 BC) & Cimbri (101 BC); flourished in Middle Ages; went to Milan in 1335, to Savoy in 1427.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Annuario Generale (1980); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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