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Numantia

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An ancient Spanish town on a steep height on the Douro, celebrated for the heroic defence maintained by its inhabitants against the Romans, till from the thinning of its defenders by starvation and the sword it was taken and destroyed by Scipio Africanus in 134 B.C.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Numantia'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​n/numantia.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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