Terracina, a coast town of Central Italy, 60 miles SE. of Rome. It has a cathedral on the site of a heathen temple, and on the summit of a precipice overlooking the town the ruins of a palace of king Theodoric. Pop. 6294. The Roman Tarracina was originally a Volscian town (Anxur), and down to the fall of the empire was an important station on the Appian Way.
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