City
Mutina
Modena
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Mutina, the city now called Modena, is marked on the Via Aemilia with the usual pair of towers. Its roots are old: an Etruscan settlement called Muthina, then a Celtic town of the Boii, fortified by Rome by 219 BC and made a colony of Roman citizens in 183 BC. Cicero praised it as the strongest and most splendid colony of the Roman people, and in 43 BC it gave its name to the War of Mutina. Its wool and pottery were famous, and the map's distances here agree exactly with those engraved on four Roman cups found at Vicarello.