  __notoc__ bevagna is a town and comune in the central part of the italian province of perugia (umbria), in the flood plain of the topino river. bevagna is 25&nbsp;km (15&nbsp;mi) se of perugia, 8&nbsp;km west of foligno, 7&nbsp;km north-north-west of montefalco, 16&nbsp;km south of assisi and 15&nbsp;km (9&nbsp;mi) north-west of trevi. it has a population of c. 5,000, with the town of bevagna proper accounting for about half of that. ==history== the city was originally an etruscan-oscan settlement. around 80-90 bc it became a roman municipium, called mevania', in the augustan regio vi. it lay on the western branch of the via flaminia, 13&nbsp;km (8&nbsp;mi) wsw of forum flaminii, where the branches rejoin. in 310 bc the consul fabius broke the umbrian forces here; but otherwise it is not mentioned until the 1st century ad. in 69 the army of vitellius awaited here the advance of vespasian. pastures near the tinia river and the white oxen of the clitumnus (modern. clitunno) river are mentioned by propertius, whose family was from the area (from assisium, hispellum, or mevania itself): they may refer to mevania. mevania is specifically mentioned by the later writers silius italicus, lucan and statius. there are important remains of a temple near the north gate, of a theatre built into modern houses in the (misnamed) via dell'anfiteatro, lesser remains of a second temple in the church of san vincenzo near the east gate, mosaics belonging to midsized baths in the via porta guelfa, and v
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