Ceva
Sign in to saveCeva, the ancient Ceba, is a small Italian town in the province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont, east of Cuneo. It lies on the right bank of the Tanaro on a wedge of land between that river and the Cevetta stream.
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Ceva is a small town in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, located in the province of Cuneo on a wedge of land between the Tanaro River and the Cevetta stream. While the provided context offers only geographic details about its location and setting, Ceva represents one of Italy's many historic settlements with roots extending back centuries, as suggested by its ancient name Ceba.
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- Ceva
- Italian comune.official_name
- Città di Ceva
- Italian comune.image_skyline
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- 320px
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- Landscape of Ceva
- Italian comune.region
- Piedmont
- Italian comune.province
- Cuneo (CN)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Bertini, Infermiera, Malpotremo, Mollere, Poggi San Siro, Poggi Santo Spirito, Pratolungo.
- Italian comune.mayor_party
- Lista Civica
- Italian comune.mayor
- Fabio Mottinelli
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 42
- Italian comune.population_total
- 5697
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Ceva, the ancient Ceba, is a small Italian town in the province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont, east of Cuneo. It lies on the right bank of the Tanaro on a wedge of land between that river and the Cevetta stream.
==History== In the pre-Roman period the territory around Ceva was inhabited by the branch of the mountain Ligures known as Epanterii. thumb|upright=0.8|left|Ceva in 1835 The upper Val Tanaro was Romanized in the second century BC and it is known that the area was organized around a municipium. However, it is not certain that this was Ceba: Mombasiglio is also regarded as a candidate. In the first century AD Columella referred to a particular breed of cattle raised here, and Pliny the Elder praised its sheep's milk cheese in his Natural History. The town is on the site of the old Roman road from Augusta Taurinorum via Pollentia to the coast and it is probable that there was a market here from which the cheese produced in the region was exported to Rome via the Ligurian ports of Vada Sabatia (the modern Vado Ligure) and/or Albingaunum (Albenga).