Concordia Sagittaria is an Italian town of 10 210 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Venice in Veneto. For the Catholic Church, Concordia retains the historic dignity of the seat of a cathedral, although the residence of the bishop of the diocese of Concordia-Pordenone is in Pordenone. An important Roman center, Iulia Concordia, founded, according to the currently most accredited hypothesis, in 42 BC. at the intersection of the Via Annia with the Via Postumia. Subsequently, probably in the Middle Ages, the center is called only Concordia, until 1868 when a Royal Decree determines the appellative of Concordia Sagittaria, referring to the ancient arrow factory (in Latin sagittae) which was located there at the beginning of 4th century A.D., as testified by the Notitia dignitatum.
An important Roman center, Iulia Concordia, founded, according to the currently most accredited hypothesis, in 42 BC. at the intersection of Via Annia with Via Postumia. Subsequently, probably in the Middle Ages, the center is called only Concordia, until 1868 when a Royal Decree determines the appellative of Concordia Sagittaria, referring to the ancient arrow factory (in Latin sagittae) which was located there at the beginning of 4th century A.D., as testified by the Notitia dignitatum.
In Roman times it was part of the Regio X Venetia et Histria. Recent excavations have brought to light the remains of warehouses, domus, baths (via Claudia), wells and sections of the decumanus maximus. Under the cathedral the foundations of the early Christian basilica were found. On the left of the Lemene river a burial ground from the IV-V century. A.D., known as "Tomb of the soldiers" due to the high number of inscriptions on the sarcophagi, testifies that Roman troops were stationed there.
After the barbarian invasions it became part of the Lombard Duchy of Cividale; in the Middle Ages it was an integral part first of the Marca del Friuli and then of the patriarchal state of Aquileia. In 1420 it was annexed together with the entire Friuli region to the Republic of Venice. In 1838 Concordia was spun off from the homeland of Friuli to be aggregated to the province of Venice. It is a center that has always been suspended between Veneto and Friuli: even in the new millennium, despite being administratively Venetian, the native inhabitants speak a western Friulian dialect with Venetian influences and have traditions of Friulian origin. [6]
Diocese since the end of the 4th century, it has never lost its dignity as the seat of the cathedral, even if the bishops have not lived there since 1586, when by order of the Holy See they moved their residence to Portogruaro, and subsequently to Pordenone in 1974. (Source Wikipedia)
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