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Visit to Valle San Giovanni near Teramo in Abruzzo Italy

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December 23rd 2007
*This is my visit to Valle San Giovanni near Teramo in Abruzzo Italy. The village has about 350 people. It is the town from which my grandfather emigrated when he came to America in the early 1900's. *The property of my family has been turned into a renovated house called Casale. *My grandmother came from ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more