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Housing Units (2000): 2556
Land area (2000): 1.244820 sq. miles (3.224070 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.169791 sq. miles (0.439757 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.414611 sq. miles (3.663827 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76104
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.603042 N, 79.755447 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15084
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Headwords:
Tarentum
Wikipedia
Tarentum may refer to:
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Taranto, Apulia, Italy; on the site of the ancient Roman city of Tarentum (formerly the Greek colony of Taras)
- See also History of Taranto
- Tarentum (Campus Martius), also Terentum, an area in or on the edge of the Campus Martius in Rome
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Tarentum, Pennsylvania, United States
- Tarentum Bridge, in the above place
- ST Tarentum, a tug in service with Società Rim. Napoletani (1962–82); originally known as Empire Bess
In the topography of ancient Rome, the Tarentum or Terentum was a religious precinct north of the Trigarium, a field for equestrian exercise, in the Campus Martius. The archaeological survey of the site shows that it had no buildings.
The Tarentum gave its name to the ludi tarentini ("Tarentine Games"), the archaic ludi that became the Saecular Games; the name is perhaps less likely to have come from the place Tarentum in Apulia. The location of the Tarentum is indicated primarily by the discovery in 1930 of the inscribed record of the Saecular Games (acta) held in 17 BC, which traditionally took place there. It was the precinct within which the underground Altar of Dis and Proserpina was located.
Usage examples of "tarentum".
As the Olympian Games were to be held this summer, and as a very large gathering would be there, he was, if he could get through the enemy's forces, to be present at them and inform those Sicilians who had fled there from the war and any citizens of Tarentum who had been banished by Hannibal that they might return home and rest assured that the Roman people would restore to them all that they possessed before the war.
Fabius, the conqueror of the city of Tarentum, is praised for abstaining from making booty of the images.
Whilst I live, the Galaesus purls and glistens in the light of that golden afternoon, and there beyond, across the blue still depths, glimmers a vision of Tarentum.