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Gaeta

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

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... Read more

Gaeta
Gaeta, Lazio/Italy Caieta Evolved from the Roman name which comes from the Greek kaiatas , itself from kaiadas ‘cavern’ or ‘cavity’ in the sense of an inlet or small bay. This describes the Gulf of Gaeta from which the town takes its name. It was a maritime republic in the 8th century ... Read more

Formia
Formia, Lazio/Italy Formiae, Mola di Gaeta Derived from the Latin formus ‘hot’. The previous name meant the ‘Mill of Gaeta’, a town on the Gulf of Gaeta. Read more

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