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Maremma

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Maremma

Marshy district of central Italy, extending along the Tyrrhenian coast from southern Tuscany to northern Lazio regions; area 2,590 sq km/1,000 sq mi. Grosseto is the chief town of what is now a prosperous farming district. Malaria once made Maremma extremely unhealthy, but the district has since been extensively drained and settled.



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Germain;' `ten, fifteen, or twenty thieves, have been arrested in a cafe on the Boulevard du Temple, or in the Thermes de Julien,' -- and yet these same men deny the existence of the bandits in the Maremma, the Campagna di Romana, or the Pontine Marshes.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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