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Town in Umbria, Italy, NE of Lake Bolsena,
population (1981) 22,800. Built on the site
of Volsinii, an Etruscan town destroyed by
the Romans 280 BC, Orvieto has many Etruscan
remains. The name is from Latin Urbs Vetus
`old town'.