AQUILEIA, an ancient Italian city, stormed and destroyed by Attila A.D. 452. It was recovered by Narses from the Huns, but it never regained its pristine grandeur. Before that period this Roman colony was 12 miles in circumference, and was a place of great wealth and magnificence. It was among the oldest bishop's sees in Italy, and in the sixth century its bishops had long contests with Rome. The Venetians, in 1420, conquered the adjacent country; and now Aquileia, with Udine and Friuli, forms a part of the Austrian circle of Gorizia.