(Latin, beneventum, fair wind) <\/p>\n
Town and former papal principality of Campania, Italy . It occupies the site of the ancient Maleventum, founded by the Samnites and conquered by the Romans, 275 B.C., who changed its name; destroyed by the Goths A.D. 542 . An independent Lombard duchy from 571 , it was ceded by Emperor Henry III to Pope Leo IX, 1053 , who led an expedition against the Norman invaders of Benevento and finally succeeded in making them his devoted subjects. From 1053 till 1860 , when it was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy , this principality, surrounded by the Kingdom of Naples , was governed by a delegate of the Holy See, but was very often occupied by the Neapolitans. The seat of an archdiocese since 939 , it was the scene of eleven councils from 1059 to 1545 . Its Byzantine cathedral dates from the 9th century ; the church of Saint Sophia from the Lombard period (c.760 ). <\/p>\n
Benevento (Latin, beneventum, fair wind) Town and former papal principality of Campania, Italy . It occupies the site of the ancient Maleventum, founded by the Samnites and conquered by the Romans, 275 B.C., who changed its name; destroyed by the Goths A.D. 542 . An independent Lombard duchy from 571 , it was ceded by … Continue reading “Benevento”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}