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Lanciano

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Abruzzo, Italy
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About Lanciano

Lanciano is a city and comune inside the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo vicinity of imperative Italy. It has 36,304 population as of 2011. The town is understood for the first recorded Catholic Eucharistic Miracle. The historic Roman call of Lanciano was Anxanum, a metropolis of the Frentani Italic tribe. The city is said to had been based in 1181 BC by Solimus, a Trojan refugee arrived in Italy in conjunction with Aeneas.

Legends aside, archaeological findings have proven that the vicinity turned into settled from the 5th century. Under the Frentani it become probably under the influence of Greater Greece. After the quit of the Samnite Wars, which saw the Frentani allied with the Romans, Lancianum acquired the reputation of municipium. It changed into possibly a flourishing industrial website, across an historic and vital change direction connecting Pescara to Apulia. According to lifestyle, Lanciano is also the birthplace of Longinus the Roman centurion who thrust his spear into Jesus' facet all through the Crucifixion: Lanciano in Italian approach "of the Spear".

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