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Term: Torino

Located on Po river near junction with other rivers; Taurini town was partly destroyed by Hannibal 218 BCE; was important Roman military town; part of Lombard kingdom, then of Frankish empire; ruled by Savoy from the 11th century and held by the French in the 16th and 19th centuries.

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Turin, Italy, 1877 - 1962
Cahors, 1496 - 1544, Turin, Italy
active Florence, Turin, Rome, late 19th century
active Turin, Milan, Florence, Rome, and Iran, 1855 - 1874