Aquileia
an old town of the former Pop. about 25,000. Austrian crownland of Görz and Gra- AQUINAS disca, 22 miles W. N. W. of Trieste, near the Gulf of Venice. nice. Before the fall of the Roman empire it was the great emporium of trade between the north and south of Europe, and was often called the "Second Rome." Cæsar Augustus frequently resided here, and several councils of the Church, the first in 381, were held here. In the 6th century, the title of Patriarch was taken by the bishops of Aquileja, who assumed second rank to the Pope. The town was destroyed by Attila in 452, when the inhabitants numbered 100,000. Pop. 2,000.