Word: poggibonsi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their right the French troops won Poggibonsi (pronounced Poe-je-bon-see), junction of five important roads, out flanked the German defenders and battered toward Florence, 22 miles away...
...Near Poggibonsi the French also captured, virtually unharmed, one of the delights of medievalists - the town of San Gimignano "of the beautiful towers." The allied Control Commission had proclaimed the town a protected monument "of the first artistic and historical importance"; it was carefully outflanked and spared direct assault...
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