Pontecorvo, a city of the Italian province of Caserta, on the river Garigliano, 37 miles NW. of Capua, with 5172 inhabitants. It has an old cathedral and a castle. It was long attached to the States of the Church. Napoleon I. gave the title of Prince of Pontecorvo to Marshal Bernadotte, afterwards king of Sweden.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 308
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