Fregellae

Fregellae was a city in ancient Italy.

Fregellae lay on the upper Liris (now Liri ), near the mouth of Trerus (now Sacco ), and was due to its location of particular military importance. It was originally inhabited by Oscan Opikern, then. Of the Volscians and later by the Samnites 328 BC it became a Latin colony of Rome. In later erupted Second Samnitenkrieg Fregellae was BC temporarily ( until 313 BC) reconquered by the Roman defeat at the Caudine 320 passports by the Samnites. During the wars against Pyrrhus, the city in 280 BC took, and Hannibal Fregellae was loyal to Rome. Between 201 and 177 BC migrated due to the favorable location of the city about 4000 families.

In the year 125 BC Fregellae, one of the most important towns in Italy began, but a war against Rome, because the Roman People's Assembly refused to give the allies Roman citizenship. However, the city was defeated by treachery soon the praetor Lucius Opimius; their walls were pulled down. Fregellae was to the village. His name has been preserved in a land ( ager Fregellanus ), a road station on the Via Latina ( Fregellanum ) and an area in Rome, where perhaps had settled survivor of the destruction.

Many residents were located in the city, founded in 124 BC Fabrateria Nova, a few kilometers south at today's San Giovanni Incarico, resettled. As this place is 580 AD, was destroyed by the Lombards founded the residents today Falvaterra.

The remains of the colony Fregellae be excavated since 1978 under the direction of Filippo Coarelli. The archaeological park is open at Isoletta, a district of Arce, to the public. Unique Finds and Designs can be seen in the Archaeological Museum in nearby Ceprano.