Falerii
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Falerii is a village in the municipality of Fabrica di Roma in the Province of Viterbo, Italy. Its name is better known for two nearby ancient cities, Falerii Veteres and Falerii Novi.
The apses of the church of Santa Maria di Falleri.
Tre ponti necropolis
Terracotta antefix from Falerii Veteres, 5th century BC
Giorces Veii Apollo 1
Samnite Wars
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The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome and north of the Lucanian tribe.
Falerii
…resistance was broken. The two city-states requested a truce and a forty-year truce was granted. In 342 BC, the Roman victory over the Samnites in the First Samnite War (344-342 BC) induced Falerii to ask Rome to convert their forty years' truce into a permanent treaty of peace. In the first years of the Third Samnite…
Samnite soldiers from a tomb frieze in Nola, 4th century BC
Ancient Roman fresco from the Esquiline Necropolis, dated c. 300–280 BC, possibly representing scenes from the Second Samnite war
A ceremonial Attic helmet typical of many found in Samnite tombs, c. 300 BC
Second Samnite War, Battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, the Roman army of the consuls Tiberius Veturius Calvinus symbolically pass under the yoke after their surrender