{{Infobox frazione | name = Fregene | image_skyline = Fregene aerial - 01.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Aerial view of Fregene | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{coord|41|51|11|N|12|11|36|E|region:IT_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = [[Lazio]] | metropolitan_city = [[Metropolitan City of Rome|Rome]] (RM) | comune = [[Fiumicino]] | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | population_footnotes = <ref name=a>[http://www.comune.fiumicino.rm.gov.it/il-comune/il-comune-in-cifre Population of Fiumicino and its ''frazioni''](in Italian) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225210814/http://www.comune.fiumicino.rm.gov.it/il-comune/il-comune-in-cifre |date=2017-02-25 }}</ref> | population_total = 6445 | population_as_of = 2012 | pop_density_footnotes = | gentilic =Fregenini | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 4 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 00054 | area_code = 06 | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Fregenae''' ({{langx|it|Fregene}}) was a maritime town of ancient [[Etruria]], situated between [[Alsium]] and the mouth of the [[Tiber]].<ref>[[Strabo]] v. p. 226; [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] iii. 5. s. 8; ''[[Antonine Itinerary]]'' p. 300.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422930 |title=Places: 422930 (Fregenae) |author=Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli |accessdate=November 25, 2016 |publisher=Pleiades}}</ref> The modern '''Fregene''' is an Italian hamlet (''[[frazione]]'') of [[Fiumicino]], in the [[Metropolitan City of Rome Capital]], [[Lazio]]. As of 2012 its population was of 6,445.<ref name=a />
==History==
===Ancient Fregenae=== [[Livy]] mentions Fregenae among the ''coloniae maritimae'' (xxxvi. 3); and there is every reason to suppose that it was established at the same time with Alsium, in 245 BCE, and that we should read Fregenae for Fregellae in [[Velleius Paterculus]],<ref>i. 14.</ref> where he speaks of the foundation of these two colonies.<ref name="Nibby1849">{{cite book|author=Antonio Nibby|title=Analisi storico-topografico-antiquaria della carta de' dintorni di Roma|url=https://archive.org/details/analisistoricot01nibbgoog|year=1849|publisher=Tip. delle Belle arti|pages=[https://archive.org/details/analisistoricot01nibbgoog/page/n285 279]–}}</ref> This is confirmed by the Epitome of the 19th book of Livy, where, though Alsium is not mentioned, the foundation of Fregenae is coupled with that of [[Brundusium]], which Velleius refers to the following year.<ref>[[Velleius Paterculus]] ''l. c.''; Livy ''Epit.'' xix., where the reading Fregenae is supported by the best MSS., though the old editions have Fregellae.</ref> No subsequent notice of it occurs in history: its marshy and unhealthy situation<ref>Alluded to by [[Silius Italicus]], viii. 475.</ref> probably prevented its rising to prosperity; and, after the construction of the [[Portus Augusti]] on the right bank of the Tiber, it seems to have gradually sunk into insignificance. Hence, though its name is found in Strabo, Pliny, and the Itineraries, it is not noticed by [[Rutilius Claudius Namatianus|Rutilius]] in his description of the coast of Etruria, and no ruins now mark the site. But the distances given in the Itinerary of 9 M.P. from Alsium, and the same from Portus Augusti at the mouth of the Tiber, enable us to fix its position with certainty at a spot now called ''Fregene'' in the ''[[comune]]'' of [[Fiumicino]].<ref>{{Barrington Atlas|map=43}}</ref>
===Modern Fregene=== The modern town was created in 1928 as part of a large [[drainage]] project along the coasts of Lazio, near [[Maccarese]], to create a sea resort. From the 1970s Fregene grew as part of the urban expansion of [[Rome metropolitan area]]. Until 1992 It was part of the municipality of [[Rome]], when Fiumicino was created as an independent municipality.<ref>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.comune.fiumicino.rm.gov.it/il-territorio/storia-arte-e-cultura History and territory of the municipality of Fiumicino] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019205929/http://www.comune.fiumicino.rm.gov.it/il-territorio/storia-arte-e-cultura |date=2012-10-19 }}</ref>
==Geography== Fregene is located on [[Tyrrhenian Sea|Tyrrhenian coast]], 31 km in north of [[Fiumicino]], near [[Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport|its international airport]] and the villages of [[Maccarese]], [[Focene]] and [[Passo Oscuro]]. It is 24 km far from [[Ladispoli]], 42 from [[Rome]] and 55 from [[Civitavecchia]]. Nearest railway station is [[Maccarese-Fregene railway station|Maccarese-Fregene]] on [[Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway|Rome-Pisa line]].
==See also== *[[Arrone (river)|Arrone River]] *[[Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport|Rome-Fiumicino Airport]]
==References== {{reflist}} *{{SmithDGRG}}
==External links== {{commons category|Fregene}}
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[[Category:Coloniae (Roman)]] [[Category:Etruscan sites]] [[Category:Frazioni of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital|Fregene]] [[Category:Fiumicino]] [[Category:245 BC]] [[Category:240s BC establishments]] [[Category:Etruscan cities]] [[Category:Destroyed populated places]] [[Category:Former populated places in Italy]]