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Puteoli, the ancient predecessor of Pozzuoli, was an Italian city of Roman times on the coast of Campania, on the north shore of a bay running north from the Bay of Naples. The Roman colony there was established in 194 BC.Pozzuoli was the great emporium for the Alexandrian grain ships.
The remains of a huge amphitheatre may still be seen here.
The apostle Paul is traditionally supposed having landed here on his way to Rome, from which it was distant 170 miles. Here he would have tarried for seven days (Acts 28:13, 14) and with his companions began their journey, by the " Appian Way", to Rome.
Puteoli was the location for a spectacular stunt (in 37For alternate uses, see Number 37. Events March 18 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula Roman Emperor. Abilene is granted to Agrippa I. Peter founds the Syrian Orthodox Church. traditional date) Births December 15 Nero, Roman Empe AD) by the eccentric CaligulaGaius Julius Caesar Germanicus ( August 31, AD 12 January 24, AD 41), also known as Gaius Caesar or Caligula was the third Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from AD 37 to 41. Known for his extremely extravagant, eccentric, and sometimes, who on becoming Emperor ordered a temporary floating bridgePontoon bridges are floating bridges supported by floating pontoons with sufficient buoyancy to support the bridge and dynamic loads. While pontoon bridges are usually temporary structures, some are used for long periods of time. Permanent floating bridge to built using ships as pontoonA pontoon is a buoyant device, either of solid lightweight material or constructed as a watertight chamber, used to support objects above or below water. Pontoons may be simply constructed from closed cylinders such as pipes or barrels or fabricated as bos, stretching for over two miles from the town to the famous neigboring resort of BaiaeBaiae (Italian: Baia), in the Campania region of Italy on the Bay of Naples, was for several hundred years a fashionable and luxurious coastal resort, especially towards the end of the period of the Roman Republic. Baiae was even more popular than Pompeii, across which he proceeded to ride his horse, in defiance of an astrologer's prediction that he had "no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae".
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation.
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Roman sites of Campania
