Nola is an ancient town in Campania, in Italy, about 7.5 miles from Mt. Vesuvius. Archaeological remains from an eruption of Vesuvius from between 1800 and 1750 B.C. reveal information about the daily life of the Bronze Age inhabitants of Nola [see: Move Over, Pompeii). In an article on the Cippus Abellanus* (an inscription on a boundary marker), M Horatius Piscinus says that Nola was originally founded as Hyria by "Greeks and Calcidesi, a pre-Italic, Ausonian people," later renamed Nuvla becoming "the capital of the Oscan Samnite confederation around 400 B.C." The Catholic Encyclopedia says Nola was founded by Etruscans or Chalcideans from Cumae and that it was taken by Rome in 311 B.C. during the Samnite War, besieged twice by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, and subjugated by the Roman leader Sulla in 89. The leader of the slave rebellion Spartacus (73 B.C.), Alaric of the Visigoths (410) and the Vandals (453) also sacked Nola.
Nola is home to ancient inscriptions, necked amphorae, and an ancient amphitheatre. It is known as the town where Emperor Augustus died.
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