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Cassino



Cassino (pop. 26,300), Italian town about 75 miles southeast of Rome, site of Monte Cassino, a Benedictine monastery founded in A.D. 529. During World War II, Cassino was strategically important to the German defense of Rome, and the town and abbey were nearly destroyed in heavy fighting. Both have since been rebuilt.



See also: Italy.

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