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Vicentia
Vicenza
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Vicetia, now Vicenza, was a modest town of the Veneti where two rivers meet, and the writer Aelian praised its eels as exceptionally fine. It first appears in history on a boundary stone of 135 BC that settled its border with neighbouring Ateste, now Este. On the map a faint stroke over the e turns the name into Vicentia, the later form, and that pale stroke may have been added by a later hand.