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=== Extension to Beneventum === [[File:Minturno Via-Appia.jpg|thumb|Via Appia within the ancient [[Minturno]]]] The [[Third Samnite War]] (298β290 BC) is perhaps misnamed. It was an all-out attempt by all the neighbors of Rome: Italics, Etruscans and [[Gauls]], to check the power of Rome. The Samnites were the leading people of the conspiracy. Rome dealt the northerners a crushing blow at the [[Battle of Sentinum]] in [[Umbria]] in 295. The Samnites fought on alone. Rome now placed 13 colonies in Campania and Samnium. It must have been during this time that they extended the Via Appia 35 miles beyond Capua past the Caudine Forks to a place the Samnites called Maloenton, "passage of the flocks". The itinerary added [[Calatia]], [[Caudium]] and [[Benevento|Beneventum]] (not yet called that).<ref>William Smith, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' (London, 1854), 1292β93. ''[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=via-appia-geo]''</ref> Here also ended the [[Via Latina]].<ref>William Smith, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'' (London, 1854), 1303. ''[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=via-latina-geo]''</ref>
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