page_title: Sora, Lazio
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sora, Lazio / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The city and the ducal palace in 1604. Sora and the Ducal Palace in 1604. Italiano: Sora e palazzo ducale nel 1604. Sora alla fine del XVI secolo. Napulitano: Sora 'int'ô 1604 secunno na pittùra 'e Francesco Vanni. Sora je 1604 a na pittùra de Francesco Vanni.
context_page_description: Sora is a town and comune of Lazio, Italy, in the province of Frosinone. It is built in a plain on the banks of the Liri. This part of the valley is the seat of some important manufacturing, especially of paper mills. The area around Sora is famous for the costumes of its peasants.
context_section_description: Sora, an ancient Volscian town, was thrice captured by the Romans, in 345, 314, and 305 BCE, before they managed, in 303, by means of a colony 4,000 strong, to confirm its annexation. In 209, it was one of the colonies that refused further contributions to the war against Hannibal. By the lex Julia, it became a municipium, but under Augustus, it was colonized by soldiers of the legio IV Sorana, which had been mainly enrolled there. It belonged technically to Latium adiectum.
  Located in the Ducatus Romanus under the authority of the pope during the early Dark Ages, it was captured by the Lombards of Gisulf I of Benevento in 705.
  The castle of Sorella, built on the rocky height above the town,
  was in the Middle Ages a stronghold of some note. In 1443, King Alfonso of Naples made Sora the seat of an independent Duchy; it was afterwards seized by Pope Pius II, but being restored to the Cantelmi by Pope Sixtus IV, it ultimately passed to the duke Giovanni Della Rovere. Against Cesare Borgia, the city was heroically defended by Francesco Maria I Della Rovere. It was purchased by Pope Gregory XIII for 11,000 ducats and bestowed under the suzerainty of Gregory's son, Giacomo Boncompagni (who was the first duke of Sora of the family).
caption: The city and the ducal palace in 1604
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