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Cavallino

Cavallino is a town just south-east of Lecce in Apulia, southern Italy. It is the site of one of the main Messapian settlements of the Salento peninsula, a large walled town with houses and tombs that flourished in the sixth century BCE before being abandoned early in the fifth.

Cavallino
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Cavallino. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/cavallino
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