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Sa⋅ler⋅no

[suh-lair-noh, -lur-; It. sah-ler-naw]
–noun
a seaport in SW Italy: taken by U.S. forces September 1943. 161,598.
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Sa·ler·no   (sə-lûr'nō, sä-lěr'-)   
A city of southern Italy on the Gulf of Salerno, an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Originally a Greek settlement and later a Roman colony (founded in 197 B.C.), Salerno was the site of a noted medical school in the Middle Ages. Population: 133,000.
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