Nepi

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Nepi
Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Viterbo (VT)
Mayor	Franco Vita
Elevation	227 m
Area	84 km²
Population
- Total (as of December 31, 2004)	8,438
- Density	93.16/km²
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	42°14′N, 12°20′E
Gentilic	Nepesini
Dialing code	0761
Postal code	01036
Patron	Sts. Ptolomey and Romanus
- Day	[August 24]]
Website: www.comunenepi.it

Nepi (anciently Nepet or Nepete) is a town and comune in Italy in the province of Viterbo, region of Latium. The town lies 40 km from the city of Viterbo and about 13 km southwest from Civita Castellana. As of 2005, there were 8,438 inhabitants.

[edit] History

Nepet had become Roman before 386 BC, when Livy speaks of it and Sutrium as the keys of Etruria. In that year it was surrendered to the Etruscans and recovered by the Romans, who beheaded the authors of its surrender. It became a colony in 383 BC It was among the twelve Latin colonies that refused further help to Rome in 209 BC After the Social War it became a municipium. It is hardly mentioned in imperial times, except as a station on the road (Via Amerina) which diverged from the Via Cassia near the modern Settevene and ran to Ameria and Tuder.

In the 8th century AD it was for a short while the seat of a duchy. [Nepi Basilica:[1]]

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.