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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Ager Falernus</span></h1>
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<p>Der <b>ager Falernus</b> (<a href="Latein" title="Latein">lateinisch</a> für <i>falernisches Feld</i>) war die Bezeichnung für eine der fruchtbarsten Landschaften Italiens. Das Feld lag im Norden <a href="Kampanien" title="Kampanien">Kampaniens</a> zwischen dem Berg <a href="Callicula" title="Callicula">Callicula</a> und dem Fluss <a href="Volturno" title="Volturno">Volturnus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In der <a href="Antike" title="Antike">Antike</a> war der <i>ager Falernus</i> für den <a href="Falerner" title="Falerner">Falerner</a>, einen von antiken Autoren besonders gelobten <a href="Wei%C3%9Fwein" title="Weißwein">Weißwein</a>, bekannt.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>217 v. Chr. marschierte <a href="Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> mit seinem Heer in diese Region und plünderte sie, woraufhin der <a href="R%C3%B6mischer_Diktator" title="Römischer Diktator">Diktator</a> <a href="Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus">Quintus Fabius Maximus</a> ihn einkesselte. Hannibals Ausbruch, den er durch eine List erreichte, wird als <a href="Schlacht_am_Ager_Falernus" title="Schlacht am Ager Falernus">Schlacht am Ager Falernus</a> bezeichnet.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Christian_H%C3%BClsen" title="Christian Hülsen">Christian Hülsen</a>: <i><a href="https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Falernus_ager" class="extiw external" title="s:RE:Falernus ager">Falernus ager</a>.</i> In: <i><a href="Paulys_Realencyclop%C3%A4die_der_classischen_Altertumswissenschaft" title="Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft">Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft</a></i> (RE). Band VI,2, Stuttgart 1909, Sp. 1971 f.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Holger_Sonnabend" title="Holger Sonnabend">Holger Sonnabend</a>: <i>Ager Falernus.</i> In: <i><a href="Der_Neue_Pauly" title="Der Neue Pauly">Der Neue Pauly</a></i> (DNP). Band 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1, Sp. 248 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/der-neue-pauly-addition/DNP%201996-2008/DNP%2001%20%281996%29%20A-Ari/page/n88/mode/1up">Digitalisat</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Plinius_der_%C3%84ltere" title="Plinius der Ältere">Plinius der Ältere</a>, <i><a href="Naturalis_historia" title="Naturalis historia">Naturalis historia</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/14*.html#62">14, 62–63</a>.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Titus_Livius" title="Titus Livius">Livius</a>, <i><a href="Ab_urbe_condita_(Livius)" title="Ab urbe condita (Livius)">Ab urbe condita</a></i> 22,15-16.</span>
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