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VELLETRI, va-la'tre, town, Italy, in Roma Province, western Latium, 20 miles southeast of Rome. It contains a 13th-century town hall cathedral which was reconstructed in 1660, and a town hall dating from the 16th century town hall. Velletri was known to the ancients as Velitrae. It was an important town of the Volsci, and was taken by the Romans in 338 B.C. In World War II it was defended by German troops until June 2, 1944, when United States forces captured it. Pop (1961) 40,053.

Church) and the 15th century town hall Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) have been restored. The Leine flows past remnants of the medieval town walls and past the 17th century town hall Leine castle, restored as the state parliament. The modern commercial heart of the city and the opera house lie in an area developed in the 19th century town hall between the medieval town and the main railway station. Hannover is a green city; a belt of open land along the Leine River separates the Linden industrial quarter, an independent town until 1920, from the main part of the city.

In architecture, this present century town hall saw Sweden develop a boldness hat impressed the whole world. Ragnar Ostberg's Town Hall, in Stock-lolm, was perhaps the most discussed building in Europe after its com-Jetion in 1923, and when Gunnar Asplund built the Stockholm City Li-irary, with its lending hall rising like a vast brown hat, cylindrical in hape, he really gave birth to functionalism in architecture, which term, t appears, was first coined in Sweden and then spread around the world.