Foglia (Magliano Sabina)

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Foglia
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Coordinates: 42°19′53″N12°28′26″E / 42.33129°N 12.47393°E / 42.33129; 12.47393
CountryItaly
Region Lazio
Province Rieti
Comune Magliano Sabina
Elevation
85 m (279 ft)
Population
 (2001)Stat
  Total44
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)

Foglia is a frazione of the Italian comune of Magliano Sabina, in the province of Rieti, Lazio. [1] [2]

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Geography

Foglia is located on a tuff plateau in the Tiber Valley, between the mouth of the Campana creek  [ it ] to the north and the Aia stream  [ it ] to the south, almost opposite the mouth of the Treja  [ it ] river on the Tiber.

History

Prehistory - archaic era

The town sits close to an ancient ford of the Tiber where it joins the Tiber Valley beetween Treja and Aia valley an prehistory-archaic way to Archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla and Falerii Veteres. Inside the town, on the side of the Autostrada del Sole, and above what remains of a necropolis created in the tuff plateau on which the town itself stands, is an inscription in the Faliscan alphabet where a dictus was found. It is located on a slab of local sandstone. The letters are 3.5 centimetres (1.4 in) in height, except the sigma which is 4 centimetres (1.6 in) and the V sign which is 3 centimetres (1.2 in). [3] [4]

Contemporary

In 1817 Foglia was an autonomous municipality; it was then annexed from 1827 to 1853 to the municipality of Collevecchio and then, from 1853, to the municipality of Magliano Sabina, of which it is still a frazione. [5]

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References

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  3. Firmani, art. cit. in QuadAEI 3, 1979, pp. 118–119, fig 2
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