Ascoli

Ascoli (anc. Asculum Picenum), a city of Italy, on the Tronto, 83 miles S. of Ancona by rail. It has a fine cathedral and some Roman remains, and manufactures of majolica and glass-ware, silk, leather, &c. It suffered much from an earthquake in 1878. Pop. 29,000. The province of Ascoli Piceno, in Central Italy, belonging to the Marches, with an area of 809 sq. m. and an estimated pop. of 216,181.—There is another Ascoli (anc. Asculum Apulum or Satrianum), also an episcopal city, 19 miles S. of Foggia. Pop. 6478. Pyrrhus here defeated the Romans, 279 B.C.