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Martinsicuro (former Roman town of or )

(2025). 9780691049458, Princeton University Press.
is a town and (municipality) in province of Teramo, , central . It is located on the right of the mouth of .


History
Remains of a (10th-9th centuries BC) settlement were found in the communal territory, on a hill overlooking the Tronto river. At the river's mouth existed Truentum, remembered by Roman writer Pliny the Elder as part of the Roman region of , and attributed to the tribe. It was noted during the Roman civil wars as one of the centers occupied by Julius Caesar.Letter from Pompey to L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, attached to a letter from Cicero to Atticus, February 49 B.C.: , Epistulae ad Atticum (8,12) It is cited by , and , also reported in the Antonine Itinerary and in the Tabula Peutingeriana. The territories alongside of his river were divided under the reform of . After the Roman conquest in the 3rd century BC it became a and later was reached by the .

Castrum Truentinum was conquered by the in the wake of the fall of in 580, but in the subsequent centuries most of the inhabitants moved to other centres in the mainland. In the 16th century the Spaniards built here two watchtowers, around which a small borough grew.


Main sights
  • Tower of Charles V (1547). Since 2009 it has housed an archaeological museum.


Notable people
  • Gigliola Staffilani (1966) - Mathematician, professor at


Twin towns
Martinsicuro is twinned with:
  • Puerto de la Cruz, Spain
  • Makó, Hungary


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