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Ancona
Italia · Roman province·Italy·Founded 387 BCE (Syracusan Greek)
Adriatic naval harbor. Trajan enlarged its port; his commemorative arch was dedicated in 115 CE, two years before our snapshot.
A living port city of around 100,000 on the Adriatic; Trajan's Arch still overlooks the working harbor it was built to commemorate.
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