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Melfi
Melfi is a town in Basilicata, southern Italy, on a hill near Monte Vulture. Around 1042 the Normans of Apulia made it their first capital, and in 1059 Pope Nicholas II held a synod there at which he invested Robert Guiscard as duke of Apulia and Calabria. In 1231 Emperor Frederick II issued there the Constitutions of Melfi, a law code for the Kingdom of Sicily.
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