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Montecassino, on the southern edge of the Latin Valley, which represented a point of reference for the Christian identity of Western Europe. A few years later, in 535, the Greek-Gothic war broke out and ended in 553 with the Byzantine victory. With the subsequent
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Cassino, the city of Cassino preserves the remains of the ancient
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invasion, the political unity of the Latin Valley was compromised: the Lower Latin Valley was incorporated into the
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dating back to the 1st century AD, a Roman theater (still in use) and a section of the Via Latina.
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