Muranum, was an ancient town of the interior of

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, the name of which is not found in any ancient author; but its existence is proved by the

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, which places a station "Summurano", evidently a corruption of "Sub Murano", on the road from Nerulum to Consentia (modern

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); and this is confirmed by the inscription found at La Polla (ancient Forum Popilii), which gives the distance from that place to Muranum at 74 M.P. It is, therefore, evident that Muranum must have occupied the same site as the modern town of

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(in the

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), on a considerable hill, at the foot of which still runs the high road from

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, and where was situated the station noticed in the Itinerary. Near it are the sources of the river

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, the ancient Sybaris. (Itin. Ant. pp. 105, 110; Orell. ''Inscr.'' 3308; Romanelli, vol. i. p. 387.)

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