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2 unusual facts about Arpi


Second Punic War

After Cannae, several south Italian allies immediately went over to Hannibal: the Apulian towns of Salapia, Arpi and Herdonia and many of the Lucanians.

Vincenzo Di Mauro

He was appointed as secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See and as the Titular Bishop of Arpi in 2007.


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1968 Heathrow BKS Air Transport Airspeed Ambassador crash

Of the two Trident aircraft, G-ARPT was damaged beyond economic repair and G-ARPI was subsequently repaired but was later destroyed when it crashed on 18 June 1972 in what became known as the Staines Air Disaster.


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