Mentana

Mentana is a city and comune, former bishopric and gift Latin Catholic titular see in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, critical Italy. It is positioned 29 kilometres north-east of Rome and has a populace of approximately 23,000. Mentana's name in historical times was Nomentum, to which the Via Nomentana led from Rome. According to Livy, the metropolis turned into a part of the Latin League, which went to war with Rome at some point of the reign of Rome's king Lucius Tarquinius Priscus. Nomentum become one in every of a number of cities captured by means of Tarquinius.

It turned into a Latin city, however was taken into consideration by means of a few to be Sabine, and, like Fidenae and Ficulea, was excluded from the first region by using Augustus, who made the Anio river its northern boundary. The town was a part of the League defeated via Rome in the Battle of Lake Regillus, and turned into captured definitively in 338 BC. Subsequently, Nomentum received the civitas sine suffragio; in its municipal charter the leader Justice of the Peace even in imperial times bore the title of dictator. Pliny and Martial frequently reward the fertility of its neighbourhood.