Campania

The name, in fact, comes from the Latin campania, which refers to the province's physical resemblance to Campania, south of Rome.

Wired Top Stories 2009

All this is a long way of saying that I cannot resist pasting in another quotation from Timothy Nourse, who published a volume called Campania Foelix in 1700.

Archive 2005-07-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

All this is a long way of saying that I cannot resist pasting in another quotation from Timothy Nourse, who published a volume called Campania Foelix in 1700.

One of the great pleasures Jenny Davidson 2005

A large portion of Rome, from the Praenestine gate to the church of St. Paul, was never invested by the Goths; their excursions were restrained by the activity of the Moorish troops: the navigation of the Tyber, and the Latin, Appian, and Ostian ways, were left free and unmolested for the introduction of corn and cattle, or the retreat of the inhabitants, who sought refuge in Campania or

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The life of this inoffensive youth was spared by the generous clemency of Odoacer; who dismissed him, with his whole family, from the Imperial palace, fixed his annual allowance at six thousand pieces of gold, and assigned the castle of Lucullus, in Campania, for the place of his exile or retirement.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Italy, as far as Nola in Campania, where that famous penitent had fixed his abode.]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

At an unknown period there had come down from the snowy tops of the Apennines a strong people, known afterwards as Samnites, who now began to press upon the inhabitants of the region called Campania, in the midst of which is the volcano Vesuvius.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

The ungrateful rumor reached his ears, and induced him to seek the retirement of one of his villas in Campania.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

After solving the meaning and source of Capua, we can push on to reconstruct the Etruscan name for Capua's surrounding region, *Capavana 'Campania', economically solving for the source of the Latin name too.

Archive 2010-02-01 2010

"This is easily explained," he said; "do you remember the tall, slender man whom we observed on board the 'Campania' as being rather unsocial and taciturn?"

That Mainwaring Affair