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Comune di Sarsina
Municipal coat of arms
Country	Italy
Region	Emilia-Romagna
Province	Forlì-Cesena (FC)
Elevation	243 m (797 ft)
Area	100 km² (39 sq mi)
Population (as of December 31, 2000)
- Total	3,662
- Density	37/km² (96/sq mi)
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	43°55′N, 12°09′E
Gentilic	Sarsinati
Dialing code	0547
Postal code	47027
Frazioni	Calbano, Quarto, Ranchio, Sorbano, Tezzo, Turrito
Patron	San Vicinio
- Day	August 28
Website: www.comune.sarsina.fo.it www.sarsina.info

Sarsina (from Latin Sassina) is an Italian town situated in the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.

Ancient Sassina was a town of the Umbri. Captured by Cornelius Scipio in 271 BC, it became later a municipium of the Roman empire. In 266 BC Roman consuls celebrated a triumph over the Sassinates. It is metioned in the Fasti, and in the enumeration of the Italian allies of the Romans in 225 BCE the Umbri and Sassinates are mentioned, on an equal footing, as providing 20,000 men between them. It is possible that the tribus Sapinia (the name of which is derived from the river Sapis) mentioned by Livy in the account of the Roman marches against the Boii in 201 BC and 196 BC formed a part of the Sassinates.

The poet Plautus was native of Sassina. The town had a stratetig importance, as inscriptions, preserved in the local museum, show. Its milk is frequently mentioned; it was the centre of a pasture district and it provided a number of recruits for the Praetorian guard.

In the 10th century the bishops obtained the temporal sovereignty of the city and the surrounding district, which thus became a prince-bishopric. From 1327 till 1400 it was disputed for by the Ordelaffi of Forlì, the popes and the bishops. In the fifteenth century it was subject in turn to the Malatesta family of Cesena, and then to the Malatesta branch of Rimini, from whom it was taken by Cesare Borgia (1500-03), on whose death it was captured by the Venetians (1503-09). In 1518 it was enfeoffed to the Pio di Meldola, passing later to the Aldobrandini.

See also:

• Bishopric of Sassina

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Remains of several ancient buildings, one of which was probably the public baths, temples and fortifications and urns, pillars, bronze objects, etc found there show that this town was important in ancient days.

The Cathedral is a noteworthy monument of the 8th century CE. [Sarsina Cathedral:[1],[2], [3], [4]]

The Sanctuary of San Vicinio is a place of veneration.

Besides agriculture and cattle-raising, the principal employments of the population are the sulphur and manganese industries. There are some deposits of fossilized carbon and various sulphur springs.

• This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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• Cathedral's Millennium:[7]

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