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| | Brescia - Free Encyclopedia Free Dictionary of Italian Culture - Encyclopedia Palamito, on line since 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | It essentially has a based economy on the agricultural production, particularly of mulberries, cereals and fruit, and on the industry (of the fire weapons, iron, railway, mechanics, of the beer, of the plastic subjects, of the calzature,tessiles). |
 | | The city, founded by the Roosters Cenomani, in the 225 a.C. it was subdued from the Romans, that baptized her/it with the name of "Brixia"; in the period of the Roman expansion in the Gallia Transpadana, it constituted an important strategic-military point for the Urbe. |
 | | After having been ransacked AD by Attila in 452, among the You and the VIII century Brescia became a dukedom longobardo, but, after long struggles and the adhesion to the League Lombarda, succeeded in affirming him as free commune among the XII and the XIII century. |
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