Monteu da Po is a small ''
comune
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'' in the
Metropolitan City of Turin
The Metropolitan City of Turin ( it, Città metropolitana di Torino, Piedmontese: ''Sità metropolitan-a 'd Turin'') is a metropolitan city in the Piedmont region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin. It replaced the Province of Turin and co ...
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Piedmont
it, Piemontese
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Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
, 32 km north-east of Turin.
History
Monteu da Po was an ancient settlement of the
Ligures
The Ligures (singular Ligur; Italian: liguri; English: Ligurians) were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named.
Ancient Liguria corresponded more or less to the current Italian regio ...
. Its pre-Roman name, which appears on
inscriptions of the early imperial period, was Bodincomagus from the Ligurian name of the
Po, ''Bodincus'', which meant "bottomless".
[Pliny, ''Hist. Nat.'' iii. 122] It stood on the right bank of the river, which has since changed its course and runs now a kilometre to the north of the town.
In Roman times this became the flourishing
colonia Industria of the Augustan Regio IX, enrolled in the
''tribus Pollia''. Its importance derived from its location on the road which followed the Po from
Augusta Taurinorum
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
to
Vardagate.
Excavations have brought to light a tower, a cult building (previously identified as a theatre), a sanctuary of Isis, valuable bronze figures (some of them made locally) and numerous inscriptions.
Industria appears to have been deserted in the fourth century CE.
The name "Monteu" came from Latin ''
mons
Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
acutus'', meaning "sharp mountain".
References
Sources
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External links
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INDU´STRIA” in William Smith, Ed. (1854), ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography''.
Industriaat the Perseus Digital Library.
Page at comuni italiani website
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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