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Battle of Beneventum (275 BC)

275 BCE · 3rd century BCE · Part of the Pyrrhic War

The Battle of Beneventum was fought in southern Italy in 275 BCE between a Roman army under the consul Manius Curius Dentatus and Pyrrhus of Epirus. It was the last battle of the Pyrrhic War. Pyrrhus withdrew to Greece afterwards, leaving Rome free to take Tarentum in 272 BCE and complete its control of southern Italy.

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