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Sarsina

Sarsina is a town in the Apennine hills of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in the valley of the Savio. In antiquity it was the town of the Umbrian Sarsinates, whose defeat by Rome in 266 BCE ended Umbrian resistance, and it became a Roman municipium. It was the birthplace of the comic playwright Plautus.

Sarsina
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sarsina. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sarsina
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