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The Pontine Marshes (/ˈpɒntaɪn/ PON-tyne, US also /ˈpɒntiːn/ PON-teen; Italian: Agro Pontino [ˈaːɡro ponˈtiːno], formerly also Paludi Pontine; Latin:...

Samnites reacted with military force. Between Capua and Rome lay the Pontine Marshes (Pomptinae paludes), a swamp infested with malaria. A tortuous coastal...

(from pons, "bridge") Pontine Marshes, a region of Italy near Rome Pontine Islands, islands of Italy near Circeo Search for "pontine" on Wikipedia. All pages...

mountain promontory that marks the southwestern limit of the former Pontine Marshes, located on the southwest coast of Italy near San Felice Circeo. At...

Lidanus was a Benedictine abbot credited with draining the Pontine Marshes, Italy, and for founding Sezze Abbey in the Papal States. He died at Monte...

course of the Tiber, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Monti Sabini and the Pontine Marshes. At the end of the World War II and the fall of the Fascist regime...

the project under Prime Minister Benito Mussolini which drained the Pontine Marshes and converted them to agriculture. The town plan was designed by engineer...

a battle during the Iran–Iraq War Battle of the Marshes (Italy), the draining of the Pontine Marshes by the Fascists in Italy, also known as "Battle for...

collection A Series of Subjects peculiar to the Campagna of Rome and Pontine Marshes Roman copy of a Hellenistic bronze, in the Vatican Museums Mariotto...

predominantly in the Maremma region of Tuscany and northern Lazio, or in the Pontine Marshes to the south. The buttero habitually rides a horse of one of the working...

It was placed in the Pomentine plain, between the Latins and the Pontine marshes, which took their name from the plain. The Volsci were divided in Antiates...

them and the sea, on a site commanding the Pontine Marshes (urbs prona in paludes, "a city surrounded by marshes", as Livy called it) and also possessing...

formally known as Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang Agro Pontino, the Pontine Marshes of central Italy Agro Romano, Latin for the Ager Romanus, agricultural...

Pontine Marshes of southern Lazio where they populated new towns such as Latina, Aprilia and Pomezia, forming there the so-called "Venetian-Pontine"...

Italy"). Located near the Via Flacca, but also on the edge of the Pontine Marshes, Roman Spelunca (Latin for cave or grotto) was originally only known...

tributary of the Tiber) and southeastward to the Pomptina Palus (Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields) as far south as the Circeian promontory. The right...

Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost edge of the Pontine Marshes, a vast malarial tract of wetlands. The basis for the port, the only...

(among them Littoria and Sabaudia) on land reclaimed by draining the Pontine Marshes. In Sardinia, a model agricultural town was founded and named Mussolinia...

small rivers would overflow, swamping the terrain (Tuscany and the Pontine Marshes were deemed impassable in antiquity). The existence of Roman civilization...

Senator Raffaele Bastianelli, to preserve the last remains of the Pontine Marshes which were being reclaimed in that period. It is the only national...