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Battle of Sentinum
The Battle of Sentinum was fought in 295 BCE near Sentinum in Umbria, close to modern Sassoferrato, between Rome and a coalition of Samnites and Senone Gauls, with Etruscan and Umbrian backing. The consuls Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus and Publius Decius Mus won a hard-fought victory, in which Decius was said to have sacrificed himself. It was the decisive battle of the Third Samnite War and opened central Italy to Roman domination.
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