Word: titano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sixteen hundred and forty-eight years ago, the Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
...least populous (12,000) republic. For the past four years it has also been the only Communist-dominated state west of the Iron Curtain. Surrounded by Italy, San Marino's fortress, La Rocca, overlooking the Adriatic, towers above the grey stone face of Mount Titano (145 miles north of Rome). By modern standards, La Rocca's massive, crumbling grey walls are not much of a bastion, but last week San Marino's Communists held the fort...
Sprawling over the top of Mt. Titano in northeastern Italy, only 30 miles from Predappio, where Benito Mussolini was born more years ago than he likes to have recalled,* San Marino has 38 square miles of tourist-delighting quaintness and scenery, 14,500 inhabitants who love to give away honorary citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife...