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Contenebra

Contenebra a town of Etruria, mentioned only by Livy (6.4), from whom it appears that it was situated in the territory of Tarquinii. It was taken and destroyed by the Romans in B.C. 388, at the same time with Cortuosa, the site of which is equally unknown.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.