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Wiktionary

  1. Beneventonoun

    Province of Campania, Italy.

  2. Beneventonoun

    Town and capital of Benevento.

Wikipedia

  1. Benevento

    Benevento (UK: , US: , Italian: [beneˈvɛnto] (listen); Latin: Beneventum) is a city and comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill 130 metres (427 feet) above sea level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino (or Beneventano) and the Sabato. In 2020, Benevento has 58,418 inhabitants. It is also the seat of a Catholic archbishop. Benevento occupies the site of the ancient Beneventum, originally Maleventum or even earlier Maloenton. The meaning of the name of the town is evidenced by its former Latin name, translating as good or fair wind. In the imperial period it was supposed to have been founded by Diomedes after the Trojan War.Due to its artistic and cultural significance, the Santa Sofia Church in Benevento was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011, as part of a group of seven historic buildings inscribed as Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568–774 A.D.). A patron saint of Benevento is Saint Bartholomew, the Apostle, whose relics are kept there at the Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta.

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  1. Benevento

    Benevento is a city and comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 50 kilometres northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill 130 metres above sea-level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino and the Sabato. It is also the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop. Benevento occupies the site of the ancient Beneventum, originally Maleventum or still earlier Maloenton. The "-vent" portion of the name probably refers to a market-place and is a common element in ancient place names. The Romans theorized that it meant "the site of bad events", from Mal + eventum. In the imperial period it was supposed to have been founded by Diomedes after the Trojan War. Due to its artistic and cultural significance, the Santa Sofia's Church in Benevento has been recently declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy. Places of the power.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Benevento

    a town 33 m. NE. of Naples, built out of and amid the ruins of an ancient one; also the province, of which Talleyrand was made prince by Napoleon.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. benevento

    (anc. Beneventum). An ancient city in South Italy, said to have been founded by Diomedes the Greek, after the fall of Troy; Pyrrhus of Macedon, during his invasion of Italy, was totally defeated near Beneventum, 275 B.C. At a battle fought here, February 26, 1266, Manfred, king of Sicily, was defeated and slain by Charles of Anjou, who thus became virtually master of Italy. It was seized by the king of Naples, but restored to the pope, 1773; it was taken by the French in 1798, and restored to the pope in 1814.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BENEVENTO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Benevento is ranked #24260 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Benevento surname appeared 1,034 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Benevento.

    94.4% or 977 total occurrences were White.
    3.5% or 37 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.9% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.4% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of benevento in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of benevento in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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