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EDWARD, a Czecho-Slovak statesman, one of the delegates at the Paris Peace Conference. He was a student of sociology and a teacher at the Czech University of Prague. He escaped from Bohemia early in the war and joined Thomas Masaryk, later president of Czecho-Slovakia, in the foundation of the Czecho-Slovakian Council. He performed valuable services in the Czecho-Slovakian army and secured recognition of the state by the Allies. BENEVENTO (ancient Beneventum), a city of southern Italy, seat of an archbishop, capital of a province of the same name, between and near the confluence of the Calore and Sabato, 32 miles N. E. of Naples. The modern town is almost entirely constructed out of the ruins of the ancient. Among its most perfect remains of antiquity is the Arch of Trajan, erected about A. D. 114. Near Benevento, in 1266, was fought the great battle between Charles of Anjou and his rival, Manfred, in which the latter was killed, and his army totally defeated.
During the reign of Napoleon I., Bene vento was formed into a principality conferred on Talleyrand. In 1815, it again reverted to the Pope. In 1860 it was 1815, annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Pop. about 25,000.