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    The Monti Aurunci (or Aurunci Mountains) is a mountain range of southern Lazio, in central Italy. It is part of the Antiappennini, a group running from...
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    The Aurunci were an Italic tribe that lived in southern Italy from around the 1st millennium BC. They were eventually defeated by Rome and subsumed into...
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    Tyrrhenian Sea and the Volscian Mountains (the Monti Lepini in the north, the Monti Ausoni in the center, and the Monti Aurunci in the south) from 15 to 25 km...
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    created by British X Corps in the first battle in January, into the Aurunci Mountains, which formed a barrier between the coastal plain and the Liri Valley...
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    mostly marked by mountain ranges: the Ernici Mountains to the north and the Lepini Mountains to the southwest, the Ausoni and Aurunci Mountains to the south...
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    1944 the Goumiers travelled over seemingly impassable terrain in the Aurunci Mountains, outflanked the German defence in the adjacent Liri valley, materially...
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    Gustav line which stretched across the Italian mountains. Moreover, their fighting across the Aurunci mountains aided in allowing the Allied troops to break...
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    chestnut and (often coppiced) mixed forests. Beech forest in the Aurunci Mountains, Italy Stone pines in Doñana National Park, Spain Oak savanna of Alentejo...
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    miles northwest of Itri, where a pass carries the Appian Way over the Aurunci Mountains. On 26 December, reinforced by some irregulars hastily recruited by...
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    other mountain groups form part of the Preapennines: the Alban Hills, also of volcanic origin, and the calcareous Lepini, Ausoni and Aurunci Mountains. The...
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    Alban Hills (redirect from Alban mountains)
    Sabaudia Lago del Salto Lago del Turano Lake Vico Mountains Seven hills of Rome Alban Hills Aurunci Mountains Monti Ausoni Monte Cavo Cimini Hills Monti Ernici...
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    Expeditionary Corps (CEF), under General Alphonse Juin, attack through the Aurunci Mountains during Operation Diadem, the fourth and final Battle of Monte Cassino...
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    lived near it. Aurunci is the Roman name for Ausones by a commonplace change of an s to an r in Latin: *Ausuni> *Auruni> *Aurunici> Aurunci. They were perhaps...
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    Italian: Ausoni), the original name and the extant Greek form for the Latin "Aurunci", was a name applied by Greek writers to describe various Italic peoples...
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    fought a retreating battle through the Aurunci Mountains against the 3rd Algerian Infantry and 4th Moroccan Mountain Divisions of the French Expeditionary...
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    right would attack from the bridgehead across the Garigliano into the Aurunci Mountains. British XIII Corps in the centre right of the front would attack...
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  • altitude of 675 metres (2,215 ft) on the Aurunci Mountains. Ramellini, P. 1989. I Diplura dei Monti Ausoni e Aurunci (Lazio): fauna ed ecologia. Boll. Ass...
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  • Monte Petrella (category Mountains of Lazio)
    Monte Petrella is the highest peak in the Aurunci Mountains, in southern Lazio, central Italy. It has an elevation of 1,533 metres (5,030 ft). It can...
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    (Piana di Fondi in Italian), a small plain between the Ausoni and Aurunci mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea. The plain includes three lakes and is agriculturally...
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    hills and mountains. Ranges include the Lepini, Aurunci, Ausoni. The highest elevation is that of 1,533-metre (5,030 ft) Monte Petrella (Aurunci). The climate...
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    CEF, now increased to four divisions, advance through the rugged Aurunci Mountains and outflank the German positions. He was aware of the difficulty...
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    It was engaged in the Monte-Cassino in the Apennine Mountains, and crossed the Aurunci Mountains in May, opening up the road to Rome. Pursuing the Germans...
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  • the Rialto bridge, and provided an alternative route to avoid the Aurunci mountains. The areas along the coast of Formiae and Caietae were popular resorts...
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    Expeditionary Corps outflanked the German defences in an advance along the Aurunci Mountains. The 78th Infantry Division advanced to Route 6 and on the right of...
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    Esperia) is a breed of pony originating in the area of the Aurunci Mountains and Ausoni Mountains near Esperia in the province of Frosinone, in the Lazio...
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  • Petrella may refer to: Monte Petrella, a peak in the Aurunci Mountains in central Italy Petrella Liri, a frazione (parish) in the Province of L'Aquila...
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    battle, launched 11 May 1944, the Corps attacked into the inhospitable Aurunci Mountains which the Germans had considered impassable by modern infantry. The...
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  • the brigade on 21 January, as it captured the first peaks of the Aurunci Mountains. After holding its positions for the next few weeks, the 56th Division...
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    night of 26/27 January, the division launched an attack into the Aurunci Mountains near Castelforte. The fighting continued until 10 February, by which...
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  • capital or metropolis of the little mountain tribe of the Aurunci (in the more limited sense of that name (see Aurunci)), was situated on one of the summits...
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