Teano

Teano is a city and comune inside the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, 30 kilometres northwest of Caserta on the main line to Rome from Naples. It stands at the southeast foot of an extinct volcano, Rocca Monfina. Its St. Clements’s cathedral is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Teano Calvi, which began as Diocese of Teano circa AD 300. The historic Teanum Sidicinum became the capital of the Oscan tribe of the Sideline, which drove the Aurunci from Roccamonfina.

They likely submitted to Rome in 334 BC and their troops were grouped with those of Campania in the Roman navy. Thus the garrison of Regium, which in 280 attacked the residents, consisted of 1 cohort of Sidicini and two of Campania’s. Like Cales, Teanum persisted to have the right of coinage, and, like Suessa and Cales, remained trustworthy to Rome in each the Hannibalic and the Social wars. Its role gave it some navy importance, and it turned into seemingly made a colony by using Claudius, now not by Augustus. Strabo speaks of it because the maximum vital metropolis at the via Latina, joined through a branch road from Suessa, of which remains nevertheless exist, and which endured east to a lifestyles.