Word: cortona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center a German line around Lake Trasimeno was breached and the terraced town of Cortona, ancient headquarters of the Etruscans, was in Allied gun sights. On the Adriatic coast British advances resumed after heavy fighting, reached to within nine miles of the port of Ancona...