Isernia (anc. Æsernia), a town of Italy, in the Apennines, 52 miles N. of Naples. It is surrounded by walls, built on the cyclopean Samnite remains. Among other antiquities is a subterranean aqueduct. The town, much injured in 1805 by an earthquake, is the seat of a bishop. Pop. 7678.
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