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Little St Bernard Pass

The Little St Bernard Pass is an Alpine pass at about 2,188 m between the Tarentaise valley in Savoie, France, and the Aosta Valley in Italy. Used since prehistory and controlled by the Ceutrones and Salassi, it carried a Roman road from Augusta Praetoria into Gaul, and some historians argue that Hannibal crossed the Alps by it in 218 BCE. A hospice for travellers was founded there in the Middle Ages.

Little St Bernard Pass
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Little St Bernard Pass. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/little-st-bernard-pass
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