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Lucera
Lucera, ancient Luceria, is a town in northern Apulia, Italy, on a hill overlooking the Tavoliere plain. Rome founded a Latin colony there in 314 BCE during the Samnite Wars. In the 1220s Emperor Frederick II settled Muslims from Sicily in the town, which remained a Muslim community until Charles II of Naples destroyed it in 1300. Its great Angevin fortress still stands.
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