Arpi

Arpi was an ancient city of Daunians in the southern Italian countryside of Puglia. Other forms of the name are Argyripa and Argos Hippion. The name lives on in a homestead continues at today's Foggia.

The city was founded by a mythological legend of Diomedes. In the Samnite wars, it supported 320 BC Rome, but fell in the Second Punic War in 216 BC after the battle of Cannae by the Romans to Hannibal from. Although provided with a strong Punic occupation, the consul Quintus Fabius Maximus 213 BC succeeded in retaking the city. Since Augustus Arpi belonged to the second region of Italy ( Apulia et Hirpini ). On a late Roman Diocese of the city, the titular Arpi of the Roman Catholic Church is declining.