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Rudiae
Rudiae was a Messapian town in the Salento peninsula of southern Italy, near present-day Lecce. Its walls and tombs date back to at least the sixth century BCE, and it later became a Roman municipium. It is best known as the birthplace of the Latin poet Ennius.
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