Camerino (ancient Camerinum), a town of Central Italy, on a spur of the Apennines, 41 miles S.W. of Ancona. It has a cathedral occupying the site of a temple to Jupiter, a university (1727), and some manufactures of silk. Its bishopric, dating from the 3d century, was made archiepiscopal in 1787. Pop. 4342.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 676
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