Cannae (now , ) is an ancient village of the region of south east

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. It is a (civil parish) of the (municipality) of . Cannae was formerly a

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, and is a Latin Catholic

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(as of 2022).

Geography

The commune of Cannae is situated near the river (ancient names or ), on a hill on the right (i.e., south) bank, southwest of its mouth, and southwest of .

History

It is primarily known for the

Battle of Cannae The Battle of Cannae (; ) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage, Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and ...

, in which the numerically superior Roman army suffered a disastrous defeat by

Hannibal Hannibal (; ; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Punic people, Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Ancient Carthage, Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. Hannibal's fat ...

in 216BC. There is a considerable controversy as to whether the battle took place on the right or the left bank of the river. In later times the place became a , and the remains of an unimportant Roman town still exist upon the hill known as . In the

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, probably after the destruction of in the 9th century, it became a

, and again saw military action in the second battle of Cannae, twelve centuries after the more famous one (1018). The Byzantine , , successfully drove off the invading Lombard and Norman army. The town was wrecked in 1083 by

Robert Guiscard Robert Guiscard ( , ; – 17 July 1085), also referred to as Robert de Hauteville, was a Normans, Norman adventurer remembered for his Norman conquest of southern Italy, conquest of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century. Robert was born ...

, who left only the cathedral and bishop's residence,Benigni, Umberto
"Trani and Barletta."
The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. Retrieved: 26 November 2022. and was ultimately destroyed in 1276.

References

Bibliography

* Berry, Small, Talbert, Elliott, Gillies, Becker, 'Cannae' in ''Pleiades Gazetteer'': http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442523 * * * Gams, Pius Bonifacius ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'', reprint: Leipzig 1931, pp. 865–866. * * Hammond, N.G.L. & Scullard, H.H. (Eds.) (1970).'' The Oxford Classical Dictionary''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . p. 201. * Pius VII (1818), "De utiliori," in: ''Bullarii romani continuatio'', Vol. XV, Rome 1853, pp. 56–61.

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GCatholic – data on former and titular bishopric
* {{authority control Frazioni of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani Barletta Archaeological sites in Apulia Catholic titular sees in Europe

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