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Ancona - Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning "elbow"; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow. Greek merchants established a Tyrian purple dye factory here. Ascoli Piceno -  Asculum Picenum Ascoli was founded by an Italic population (Piceni) several centuries before Rome's founding on the important Via Salaria, the salt road that connected Latium with the salt production areas on the Adriatic coast. In 268 BC it became a civitas foederata, a "federated" city with nominal independence from Rome. In 91 BC, together with other cities in central Italy, it revolted against Rome, but in 89 BC was reconquered and destroyed by Pompeius Strabo. Its inhabitants acquired Roman citizenship, following the developments and the eventual fall of the Roman Empire. Cagli - Cale - Cagli occupies the site of an ancient village on the Via Flaminia, which seems to have borne the name Cale, 24 miles north of Helvillum (now Sigillo) and 18 miles southwest of Forum Sempronii (now Fossombrone). In the 6th century it was one of the strongholds of the Byzantine Pentapolis. Camerino  Cingoli - Cingulum -  Civitanova Marche - Cuana - Cluentis Vicus -  Cupra Marittima  more in Italian Cupra Montana more in italian Falerone -  Falerio Picenus Fano - Fanum Fortunae Fermo - Firmum Picenum Fossombrone - Forum Sempronii Helvia Recina   more Jesi - Aesis Luceoli - Luceolum Matelica - Matilica Numana - Humana Osimo - Vetus Auximum Ostra Antica  Palma  Sentinum  Urbs Salvia  Pesaro - Pisaurum Pioraco Plestia  Porto Recanati - Potentia San Severino - Septempeda Sant'Angelo in Vado  Senigallia - Sinigaglia Tolentino - Tolentinum Urbino - Urvinum Mataurense
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