Sarno, a city of Southern Italy, 30 miles by rail E. of Naples, on the farther side of Vesuvius, has an ancient castle, a cathedral (1625), a seminary, paper, cotton, linen, and ribbon manufactories, and produces fine silk. Pop. 14,464. Here Teia, king of the Goths, was vanquished and slain in a desperate battle with the Greeks, commanded by Narses, in 552.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 165
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