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Category: San Marino

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Italy’s far north

  By Ian M Packham September 4, 2017 July 6, 2023 Behind the lines, border, Italy, Latest, San Marino, Slovenia

Italy’s eastern border with modern-day Slovenia is not its only frontier to have shifted with time. The country, with its ancient and not-so-ancient empires, always seemed ageless to me, as fixed in boundaries as the island of Great Britain. This is not the case. The modern united Italian state, with… Continue reading

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To the serene republic

  By Ian M Packham July 5, 2017 March 3, 2021 Behind the lines, Italy, Latest, San Marino

The trains don’t run to San Marino any longer, the world’s oldest and smallest republic, and even if they did my great uncle wouldn’t have needed to get there. Though worrying close to the action for much of 1944, and receiving a bombing that same year that destroyed its only… Continue reading

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