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Salerno
Probably of Etruscan origin, it was a Roman colony in 197 BC. After the fall of the Roman Empire, it was conquered by the Goths, Byzantines and, in 646, by the Lombards, who annexed it to the duchy of Benevento. In 839 it became the capital of an independent Lombard principality and later raided by the Saracens. Robert Guiscard, the Norman ruler, conquered Salerno in 1077, making it the capital of his dominions. Under the Swabian rulers, it declined with the growing importance of Naples, and in the 15th century the Angevins granted it in feud to the Colonna family, then later to the Orsinis, Sanseverinos and Grimaldis. It shared the fortunes of Naples after 1590 until the unification of Italy. Salerno is a lively agricultural, industrial and commercial centre. It boasts one of the largest seaports on the Tyrrhenian coast, and it is a crucial communications point between two of the best-known touristic areas of Campania, the Amalfi and the Cilento coasts. Nowadays Salerno has a prevalently modern appearance, although it still has an interesting and characteristic historic centre, with a wealth of notably important and beautiful buildings and monuments.
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Salerno
lies in the northern corner of the homonymous gulf, at the mouth of the Irno
River valley.