Salo

Salo (Italian: Salò) is a small town in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy on the banks of Lake Garda.

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Italian - Province of Brescia - Lombardy - Italy - Lake Garda

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Salo was founded in the Roman period as Pagus Salodium and in the middle ages became a stronghold of the Milanese Visconti family. From 1440 the town came under the control of the Republic of Venice.

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Middle ages - Visconti - 1440 - Venice

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From 1943 to 1945 Salo was the capital of Mussolini's Nazi-backed Repubblica Sociale Italiana (Italian Social Republic), also known as the Republic of Salo.

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1943 - 1945 - Mussolini - Italian Social Republic

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