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Aquilonia (Italy)

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Geographic headingAquilonia (Italy)
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Variant(s)Carbonara (Avellino, Italy)
Found inCarbonara-Aquilonia, 1799-1949, 2020: page 114 (on Dec. 14 1862, town of Carbonara became known as Aquilonia)
GEOnet, viewed Mar. 2, 2021: (Aquilonia; Italy; ADM1 Campania; PPL; 41°00ʹ00ʺN 015°29ʹ00ʺE)
Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 2, 2021: (under Aquilonia, Campania: a town and comune in the province of Avellino; the Lombards called the town Carbonara or Carunar, supposedly because a major local occupation was charcoal making. In 1861, after the unification of Italy, the town was renamed Aquilonia based on a 16th-century assumption that this was the site of the Battle of Aquilonia between the Rome and the Samnites)