Pontine Marshes

"Those were the Pontine Marshes," she told us.

The old line was built to the avoid the coastal route through the Pontine Marshes, which was still swampy and malarial.

It was placed in the Pomentine plain, between the Latins and the Pontine marshes, which took their name from the plain.

At the time the Pontine Marshes, the wetlands in Tuscany for instance Maremma and Basilicata were malarial areas.

Whereas Virginia took little dainty bee-wisps of the iced chocolate, Cecil would have been useful when Mussolini drained the Pontine marshes.

Between Capua and Rome lay the Pontine Marshes (Pomptinae paludes), a swamp infested with malaria.

Decius returned to favor under the rule of Theodoric the Great, by reclaiming a portion of the Pontine Marshes at his own expense.

In 1943, following the Allied invasion at Anzio, German forces flooded The Pontine Marshes to reintroduce Malaria to the area.

(In the modern day area known as the Pontine Marshes) Varro, around 70 BC, already regarded this district as a place of legendary wealth.

At his request of the Director-general of the Department of Health, Alessandro Messea submitted a plan for the Pontine marshes.

After 1929, the Fascist regime countered the Great Depression with massive public works programs, such as the draining of the Pontine Marshes, hydroelectricity development, railway improvement, and rearmament.

Lidanus was a Benedictine abbot credited with draining the Pontine Marshes, Italy, and for founding Sezze Abbey in the Papal States.

Then, on 14 and 15 May, the two British vessels raided a depot near the promontory of Monte Circello, which itself is near the Pontine Marshes and Terracina.

A low-key Bocklin view of the Roman Campagna from that time is included in the show, "Pontine Marshes" (1851), a clump of foliage on rocky ground backed by an idyllic cloudscape.

Scymnus Chius also writes of them as occupying an inland region; and Strabo states that they had occupied the mountain tract above the Pontine marshes, and in Roman history only with Volscians.

A violent resistance of the four large property owners in the Pontine Marshes was the reaction to the necessary expropriation and leasing to the German syndicate of a large part of their marsh country.

This included areas such as southern Italy, the island of Sardinia, the Pontine Marshes, the lower regions of coastal Etruria and the city of Rome along the Tiber River.

The Anzio and Nettuno beachheads are located at the northwestern end of a tract of reclaimed marshland, formerly the Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields (Agro Pontino).

Lavinium was on a hill at the southernmost edge of the Silva Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost edge of the Pontine Marshes, a vast malarial tract of wetlands.

The town was built entirely new near the location of ancient Lavinium on land resulting from the final reclamation of the Pontine Marshes under Benito Mussolini, being inaugurated on October 29, 1939.

The next day brings us on the Pontine Marshes, wearily flat and lonesome, and overgrown with brushwood, and swamped with water, but with a fine road made across them, shaded by a long, long avenue.

It was so artificial that when Mussolini was dedicating Pomezia, the Town of Apples, built on Pontine Marshes, he was given a hug American apple, which the people pretended had been grown in Pomezia.

The band halted at nightfall on this side the Pontine Marshes, seizing without scruple some huts and sheds, from which they ejected the miserable tenants, and slaughtering with no greater ceremony the swine, cattle, and poultry of a neighbouring farm.

The presence of the former was because it was the starting-point of a canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pontine Marshes, and was used instead of it at the time of Strabo and Horace (see Appian way).