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ASISIUM (mod. Assist), an ancient town of Umbria, in a lofty situation about ism. E.S.E. of Perusia. As an independent community it had already begun to use Latin as well as Umbrian in its inscriptions (for one of these recording the chief magistrates — marone ...

... e of mountaineers, and aided by the natural strength of their country they have ASISIUM— ASKEW hitherto preserved their independence. Since the beginning of the ipth century they have been bigoted Wahhabis, though previously regarded by their neighbours as ver ...