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  1. Formerly malarial marshes in the Lazio region
  2. of Italy, near the coast 40 km/25 mi SE of
  3. Rome. They defied the attempts of the Romans
  4. to drain them, and it was not until 1926,
  5. under Mussolini's administration, that they
  6. were brought into cultivation. Products
  7. include cereals, fruit and vines, and sugar
  8. beet.
  9.