Sarsina

Sarsina
Sarsina
	Comune
	Comune di Sarsina
	Cathedral of St Vicinius.
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Sarsina Location of Sarsina in Italy
	Coordinates: 43°55′10″N12°08′35″E / 43.91944°N 12.14306°E Coordinates: 43°55′10″N12°08′35″E / 43.91944°N 12.14306°E
Country	Italy
Region	Emilia-Romagna
Province	Forlì-Cesena (FC)
Frazioni	Calbano, Pieve di Rivoschio, Quarto, Ranchio, Sorbano, Tezzo, Turrito
Government
• Mayor	Malio Bartolini
Area
• Total	100 km2 (40 sq mi)
Elevation	243 m (797 ft)
Population (31 May 2007)
• Total	3,659
• Density	37/km2 (95/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Sarsinati
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	47027
Dialing code	0547
Patron saint	San Vicinio
Saint day	August 28
Website	Official website www.sarsina.info

Last updated February 20, 2019

Sarsina (Romagnol : Sêrsna) is an Italian town situated in the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy. Its territory is included in the Tuscan-Romagnolo Apennines.

The province of Forlì-Cesena is a province in the Emilia–Romagna region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Forlì. The province has a population of 394,273 as of 2016 over an area of 2,378.4 square kilometres (918.3 sq mi). It contains 30 comuni and the provincial president is Davide Drei. Although located close to the independent Republic of San Marino, Forlì-Cesena, does not share a land border with the sovereign state.

Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northeast Italy comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna. Its capital is Bologna. It has an area of 22,446 km² (8,666 sq mi), and about 4.4 million inhabitants.

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

History

Ancient Sarsina or Sassina was a town of the Umbri. Captured by Cornelius Scipio in 271 BC, it became later a municipium of the Roman empire. In 266 BC Roman consuls celebrated a triumph over the Sassinates. It is mentioned in the Fasti, and in the enumeration of the Italian allies of the Romans in 225 BCE the Umbri and Sassinates are mentioned, on an equal footing, as providing 20,000 men between them. It is possible that the tribus Sapinia (the name of which is derived from the river Sapis) mentioned by Livy in the account of the Roman marches against the Boii in 201 BC and 196 BC formed a part of the Sassinates.

The Umbri were Italic peoples of ancient Italy. A region called Umbria still exists and is now occupied by Italian speakers. It is somewhat smaller than the ancient Umbria.

Municipium was the Latin term for a town or city. Etymologically the municipium was a social contract between municipes, the "duty holders," or citizens of the town. The duties, or munera, were a communal obligation assumed by the municipes in exchange for the privileges and protections of citizenship. Every citizen was a municeps.

Consul was the title of one of the chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently a somewhat significant title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city states through antiquity and the Middle Ages, then revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic. The relating adjective is consular, from the consularis.

The playwright Plautus was native of Sassina. The town had a strategic importance, as inscriptions, preserved in the local museum, show. Its milk is frequently mentioned; it was the centre of a pasture district and it provided a number of recruits for the Praetorian Guard.

Plautus Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period

Titus Maccius Plautus, commonly known as Plautus, was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.

The Praetorian Guard was an elite unit of the Imperial Roman army whose members served as personal bodyguards to the Roman emperors. During the era of the Roman Republic, the Praetorians served as a small escort force for high-ranking officials such as senators or provincial governors like procurators, and also serving as bodyguards for high ranking officers within the Roman legions. With the republic's transition into the Roman Empire, however, the first emperor, Augustus, founded the Guard as his personal security detail. Although they continued to serve in this capacity for roughly three centuries, the Guard became notable for its intrigue and interference in Roman politics, to the point of overthrowing emperors and proclaiming their successors. In 312, the Guard was disbanded by Constantine the Great.

In the 10th century the bishops obtained the temporal sovereignty of the city and the surrounding district, which thus became a prince-bishopric. From 1327 till 1400 it was disputed for by the Ordelaffi of Forlì, the popes and the bishops. In the fifteenth century it was subject in turn to the Malatesta family of Cesena, and then to the Malatesta branch of Rimini, from whom it was taken by Cesare Borgia (1500–03), on whose death it was captured by the Venetians (1503–09).

Forlì is a comune (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna.

The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as other lands and towns in Romagna.

Cesena (Italian pronunciation: [tʃeˈzɛːna]; Romagnol: Cisêna, is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about 15 kilometres from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137.

In 1518 it was enfeoffed to the Pio di Meldola, passing later to the Aldobrandini.

Main sights

The city contains remains of several ancient buildings, one of which probably was the public baths. Furthermore, remains of temples and fortifications have been found, as well as a number of urns, pillars, bronze objects, etc.

The Sarsina cathedral was probably constructed around the years 1000–08, has been chosen as its official year of construction, so that there were festivities in 2008.^[1]

Ennio Morricone on 25 August 2008 conducted his newest composition Vuoto d'anima piena, a work for vocals, an orchestra of 40 and a choir of 60 persons, in the cathedral-basilica for the first time.^[2] The text is based on texts by the Persian mystic Rumi.

The adjacent Sanctuary of San Vicinio (Saint Vicinius) is a place of veneration.

Economy

Besides agriculture and cattle breeding, the principal employments of the population are the sulphur and manganese industries. There are some charcoal deposits and sulphur springs.

Twin towns

Grebenstein, Germany
Lezoux, France
Lopik, the Netherlands

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sarsina". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sassina". Encyclopædia Britannica . 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 227.

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References

↑ Cattedrale Sarsina - SARSINA 1008 Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine .
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[1] Cattedrale Sarsina - SARSINA 1008 Archived 2007-12-29 at the Wayback Machine .

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