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Notwithstanding rests of italic installation found on the margin of its fertil plain, give Terni prehistoric origins, between the Nera and Serra rivers, presumably it becomes the name Internana Nahartium from the Sabinis, which means litterally "placed between two rivers". Found again by the Umbrians in 672 b.C., it was a big commercial centre until it was dominated by Rome in the Curio Dentato period. In 206 b.C. Terni was placed under (Jus Latii) which means "Latin right". Allied to Hannibale, it re-established relation with Rome in 205 b.C. Successively with the fall of the Roman empire, Terni was particularly exposed to barbarian invasions, because of its favourable position placed on the Flaminia road. Suffers destruction and plundering by the Goths of Totila in 546, by the Byzantines of Narsete in 554 and by the Longobardics in 755. Later in 1159, Federico Barbarossa gave the city in feud to cardinal Ottaviano Monticelli (antipope Vittore IV), who was acknowledged such by the population. The Ternanis paid dear for the insubordination; in fact the emperor, in 1174, sends the archbishop Cristiano from Magonza who destroyed the city. Rebuild, Terni suffers an economic breakdown caused by a long siege of the troops of Federico II. In the XIIIth century it became a centre of transit of commerces of the Florentines with Abruzzo, recovers so a relative welfare (prosperity). |
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