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AQUILEIA. an ancient town of Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about 6 m. from the sea, on the river Natiso (mod. Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times. It was founded by the Romans in 181 B.C. as a ...

... ly proclaiming his adhesion to Luther's doctrine, he was imprisoned for AQUILA— AQUILEIA half • year (15*0 or 1521) at Dillingen, by order of the bishop of Augsburg; a death sentence was commuted to banishment through the influence of Isabella, wife of Christi ...

... a wide stretch of downs partly covered with pine forest between it and the sea. Aquileia, one of the greatest seaports 1 Petermanns Mitteilungen (1890), p. 91. 1 See Supan's Physische Erdkunde, 4th ed., pp. 376-377, and the authorities there quoted. 3 " Kiiste ...

... master of Italy Theodosius advanced against the invader and overthrew him near Aquileia (July 28, 388). This victory was followed by the murder of Maximus and his son Victor, after whose death Theodosius conferred upon Valentinian II. all that part of the emp ...

... he igth century. The old castle, at one time the residence of the patriarchs of Aquileia, and now used as a prison, was erected by Giovanni Fontana in 1517 in place of the older one destroyed by an earthquake in 1511. The Romanesque cathedral contains some int ...

... d him to remain in exile through his pontificate. He suspended the patriarch of Aquileia for crowning the emperor's son, Henry, king of Italy (January 1186), in violation' of his own rights as archbishop of Milan; and only the entreaties of the citizens of Ver ...

... gradually extended in an easterly direction, and cities like Ravenna, Adria and Aquileia, which were once seaports, lie now many miles inland. The encroachment of land on sea has been calculated at the rate of about three miles in a thousand years. A strong cu ...