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Roman Campagna

Also known as Agro Romano

The Roman Campagna is the low, undulating plain surrounding Rome in Lazio, Italy. Densely settled in antiquity, it was later given over to great estates and grazing and became malarial and thinly populated, a landscape of ruins painted by artists such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Land reclamation and the control of malaria in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought renewed settlement and farming.

Roman Campagna
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Roman Campagna. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/roman-campagna
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