Atri

Atri is a comune in the Province of Teramo in the Abruzzo area of Italy. Atri is the setting of the poem “The Bell of Atri” through American author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Its name is the origin of the call of the Emperor Hadrian. Ancient Adria become a town of Picenum, located approximately 10 kilometres from the Adriatic Sea, among the rivers Vomanus and Matrinus. According to the Antonine Itinerary, it turned into distant 15 Roman miles from Castrum Novum and 14 from Teate.

It has been supposed, with a lot chance, to be of Etruscan beginning, and a colony from the greater celebrated metropolis of the call, now Adria within the Veneto region, though there's no historic evidence of the reality. The metropolis became based by way of Greeks from Aegina and reestablished by Dionysius I the tyrant of Syracuse in the 4th century BC. The first positive ancient word of Adria is the established order of a Roman colony there about 282 BCE. In the early a part of the Second Punic War its territory became ravaged by using Hannibal; however notwithstanding this calamity, it changed into one of the 18 Latin colonies which, in 209 BCE, have been trustworthy to the reason of Rome, and willing to hold their contributions both of men and cash.