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Ascoli Piceno , city (1991 pop. 53,591), capital of Ascoli Piceno prov., Marche region, central Italy, at the confluence of the Castellano and Tronto rivers. It is the market for a rich agricultural area and textiles and shoes are among its manufactures. A Roman settlement with extensive Roman remains, the city became a free republic in the 12th cent. and passed to papal control in the 15th cent.

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Ascoli Piceno, Marche/Italy Asculum Picenum Named after the pre‐Roman Picentes who took their name from the Latin picus ‘woodpecker’, a sacred bird to the tribe and one used for the interpretation of omens.

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