Facts in brief:
Located on Po river near junction with other rivers; Taurini town was partly destroyed by Hannibal 218 BCE; was important Roman military town; part of Lombard kingdom, then of Frankish empire; ruled by Savoy from the 11th century and held by the French in the 16th and 19th centuries.
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