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Laude Pompeia
Lodi Vecchio
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Laus Pompeia, now Lodi Vecchio near Milan, was named in 89 BC after Pompeius Strabo, the father of Pompey the Great, whose law gave the towns north of the Po Latin rights. The Roman writer Pliny says it was founded by the Celtic Boii. After the Milanese destroyed it in the Middle Ages, the emperor Frederick Barbarossa founded a new Lodi in 1158 a few miles away on the Adda, so the Roman town lives on as Lodi Vecchio, old Lodi.