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3 unusual facts about Langobardia Minor


Langobardia Minor

So became subject to the two duchies the entire Adriatic coast between Byzantine strongholds of Ancona in the north and Otranto in the south; the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian, however, only partially fell under the authority of the duke of Benevento, which was never able to permanently occupy Naples, the Salento and the tip of Calabria (south of Cosenza and Crotone), and of course, Rome and its suburbs.

Paul Deacon, Historia Langobardorum (Storia dei Longobardi, Lorenzo Valla/Mondadori, Milan 1992)

In the beginning they included geographically only the inland areas, leaving the Byzantines control of the coastal areas; only later (particularly at the reign of Agilulf 591-616) Lombard possessions were extended also to the coasts.



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