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    Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area. It is bounded by the comuni of Barile, Ginestra, Lavello, Maschito, Montemilone, Palazzo San Gervasio...
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    Scilla at dusk Scilla Lighthouse Scyllaeum Calabrian wine "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute...
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    Journals (31 May 1833) The town's mythological foundation is attributed to the Trojan hero Opsicella. The area shows evidence of human settlement since the Bronze...
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    Salento. According to legend, a city called Sybar existed at the time of the Trojan War, founded by the Messapii. It was conquered by the Romans in the 3rd...
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    claimed that the Daunian city had been founded by Diomedes following the Trojan War. However the first document attesting to the existence of the modern...
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    Italian king of the same name, brother of Dardanus and ancestor of the Trojans. Italy itself gets its name from this figure. According to another legend...
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    is the largest both in terms of land area and population among the 8,101 comuni of Italy. It is governed by a mayor and a city council. The seat of the...
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    In the imperial period it was supposedly founded by Diomedes after the Trojan War. Due to its artistic and cultural significance, the Santa Sofia Church...
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    settlement of Tiriolo back to Hellenic people six centuries before the Trojan War or even identifies it with the mythical Scherìa, the happy homeland...
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    the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania. According to legend, Trojans escaping from the fire and the destruction of their city, Troy, founded...
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    Oenotrians who, according to the myth, lived 16 generations before the Trojan War; the name "Italy" derives from him. Given first to the region corresponding...
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    Italic tribe. The city is said to have been founded in 1181 BC by Solimus, a Trojan refugee arrived in Italy along with Aeneas. Legends aside, archaeological...
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    number fewer that 1,000 persons. "Grecia Salentina" (in Italian). Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina. 2016. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014...
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  • polemiche". SUD Giornalismo d'Inchiesta. Retrieved 23 July 2015. "Elenco dei comuni che hanno approvato il registro delle unioni civili". Wikipink (in Italian)...
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    founded by Philoctetes, the archer famous for having killed Paris in the Trojan War. In its territory, along the Tacina and Soleo rivers, remains of settlements...
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    Padua was founded around 1183 BC by the Trojan prince Antenor. After the Fall of Troy, Antenor led a group of Trojans and their Paphlagonian allies, the Eneti...
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    city of Greater Greece by the fortune-teller Calchas, returning from the Trojan War. The oldest historical information about Albidona dates actually from...
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    peoples in the region, including the Osci (sometimes referred to as Opici), Trojans, Oenotrians, Ligures, Ausones, Mamertines, Taureani, Sicels, Morgetes and...
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