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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Gaeta , town (1991 pop. 22,334), in Latium, central Italy, a seaport on a high promontory in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was a favorite resort of the ancient Romans and was a prosperous duchy from the 9th to the 12th cent. Gaeta lost its independence to the Normans (mid-12th cent.) and thereafter shared the fortunes of the kingdom of Naples. The citadel (8th cent.) and the port were strongly fortified (15th-16th cent.). Pope Pius IX took refuge in Gaeta in 1848-49. The fall of the town to Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia after a siege (1860-61) marked the end of the rule of Francis II of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Gaeta has a cathedral (12th cent.) with a fine campanile (13th cent.)

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