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Marsica
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thumb|300px|Monte Marsicano Marsica is a geographical and historical region in Abruzzo, central Italy, including 37 comuni in the province of L'Aquila. It is located between the plain of the former Fucine Lake, the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the plain of Carsoli and the valley of Sulmona.

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  • Middle age
  • 1915 earthquake
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thumb|300px|Monte Marsicano Marsica is a geographical and historical region in Abruzzo, central Italy, including 37 comuni in the province of L'Aquila. It is located between the plain of the former Fucine Lake, the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the plain of Carsoli and the valley of Sulmona.

The area takes its name from the Marsi, an Osco-Umbrian Italic people, and then from the Latin adjective marsicus. In the center of the area there is the Fucino former lake, dried up in 1877, surrounded by parks and nature reserves. Avezzano is the most populous city of the territory. Marsica has about 130,000 inhabitants as of 2019.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marsica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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