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Ascoli Piceno (Italian: [ˈaskoli piˈtʃɛːno] ⓘ; Ascolano : Ascule; Latin: Asculum) [3] is a comune (municipality) and capital of the province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Italian region of Marche.
Ascoli Piceno, city, Marche regione, central Italy. Ascoli Piceno lies at the confluence of the Tronto and Castellano rivers. The ancient centre of the Picenes (early inhabitants of the Adriatic coast), it was conquered in the 3rd century bc by the Romans, who knew it as Asculum Picenum.
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Ascoli Piceno was dominated by various seigniories, the Malatesta and Sforza to name but a few, and was in the possession of the Papal State until the middle of the 19th century. The city was awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valour for partisan activity (2001) thanks to the pivotal role of the Ascolan resistance in September 1943 against the ...
ASCOLI PICENO, city in central Italy, south of Ancona. Ascoli Piceno was one of the first towns to authorize Jewish moneylending activities (in 1297). Jewish loan banks flourished there until this occupation was prohibited to Jews in 1458, when a *Monte di Pietà was set up.
ASCOLI PICENO , city in central Italy, south of Ancona. Ascoli Piceno was one of the first towns to authorize Jewish moneylending activities (in 1297). Jewish loan banks flourished there until this occupation was prohibited to Jews in 1458, when a *Monte di Pietà was set up.
Of his early polyptychs, only one, the altarpiece from Ascoli Piceno, dated 1473, survives in its entirety in its original frame, and still in its original location (the city's Cathedral). All the others have been disassembled and their panels and predella scenes are divided among several museums.
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The province of Ascoli Piceno (Italian: provincia di Ascoli Piceno) is a province in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ascoli Piceno, and the province is bordered by the Adriatic Sea to the east, the province of Fermo to the north, and it faces the regions of Umbria and Abruzzo to the south.
