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FULGINIAE, an ancient town of Umbria, Italy, on the later line of the Via Flaminia, 15 m. S. of Nuceria. It lay I m. S. of the modern Foligno. It was of comparatively late origin as it had no city walls, but, in imperial times it became important as a junction on the new line of . the Via Flaminia. Three miles to the N. was the independent community of Forum Flaminii, the site of which is marked by the church of S. Giovanni Profiamma, at or near which the newer line of the Via Flaminia rejoined the older. It was no doubt founded by the builder of the road, C. Flaminius, consul in 220 B.C. (See FoLIGcr0 and FLAMINIA, VIA.)

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