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Civitavecchia (:ˌtʃivitaˈvɛkkja) is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is located west-north-west of Rome, across the Mignone river. The harbour is formed by two piers and a breakwater, on which is a lighthouse. The name Civitavecchia means "ancient town". ==History== The modern city was built over a pre-existing Etruscan settlement. The harbour was constructed by the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the 2nd century. The first occurrence of the name ''Centum Cellae'' is from a letter by Pliny the Younger (AD 107). The origin of the name is disputed: it has been suggested that it could refer to the ''centum'' ("hundred") halls of the villa of the emperor. In the early Middle Ages, ''Centumcellae'' was a Byzantine stronghold. Raided by the Saracens in 828, it was later acquired by the Papal States. The place became a free port under Pope Innocent XII in 1696 and by the modern era was the main port of Rome. The French occupied it in 1849. On 16 April 1859 the Rome and Civitavecchia Rail Road was opened for service. The Papal troops opened the gates of the fortress to the Italian general Nino Bixio in 1870. During World War II, Allied bombings severely damaged Civitavecchia, and caused civilian casualties. Louis Till, the father of Emmett Louis Till (a boy from Chicago, murdered in Money, Mississippi, sparking the African-American Civil Rights Movement), was convicted of the rape of two local Italian women and the murder of another in Civitavecchia. 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「Civitavecchia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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