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Acquapendente is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Viterbo, in Lazio (Italy). Acquapendente is a centre for the agricultural production of vegetables and wine, and has a tradition of pottery craftsmanship. ==History== The area of modern Acquapendente was settled by Etruscans in Roman times, as archaeological finds have shown.〔(History at the Acquapendente communal website )〕 However, the first historical document of the modern city dates from the 9th century AD, with a town named ''Farisa'' or ''Arisa'' along the Via Francigena. A document from Emperor Otto I, dated 964, contains the first recorded use of the name ''Acquapendentem''. The name of the city, meaning "hanging water", stems from the presence of several small waterfalls forming the Paglia, a stream setting the boundary between Lazio and Tuscany. Acquapendente was the first stop in Italy in the travels of Saint Roch in the early 14th century; the saint supposedly spent several days in the hospital there curing plague victims.〔Francesco Diedo, ''Vita Sancti Rochi'' (1478), translated by Irene Vaslef, in Irene Vaslef, "The Role of St. Roch as a Plague Saint: A Medieval Hagiographic Tradition" (PhD diss., Catholic University, 1984), 198.〕 The city was later part of the March of Tuscany and, from the end of the 14th century and beginning of the 15th, it was part of the commune (later Republic) of Siena. In 1449 it became an independent centre within the Papal States. After the complete destruction of Castro, Lazio in 1649, Acquapendente, previously part of the diocese of Orvieto, became the seat of a diocese that included what had been the diocese of Castro.〔Giuseppe Cappelletti, (''Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni'' ), Venezia 1846, vol. V, pp. 549-581〕〔Pius Bonifacius Gams, (''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae'' ), Leipzig 1931, pp. 659-660〕〔Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi'', (vol. 1 ), pp. 173-174; (vol. 2 ), pp. XIX, 121; (vol. 3 ), p. 157; (vol. 4 ), p. 140〕 The diocese of Acquapendente continued in existence until 27 March 1986, when its territory was added to that of Viterbo.〔(Bull ''Qui non sine'' )〕 No longer a residential bishopric, Aquipendium, as it is called in Latin, is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.〔''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 823〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acquapendente」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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