Excavations
in Fratte area have brought to light a necropolis of the vi sec.
a.C., that shows the exsistence of an etruscan settlement of
Campania, the place of which was taken by a Greek city, become Roman
colony in 197 a.C. During
the Middleage, Salerno had a busy life and it was the seat of the
most ancient and famous european institution for the study and the
spread of medicine: the Medical School of Salerno. Roberto il
Guiscardo raised it to the Capital of his Duchy in 1077 and it has a
primary role also after the transfer of the capital in Palermo. After
this period of splendour Salerno declined under the Swabians and the
Angevins, then it belonged to several feudal families and took part
of the Reign of Naples, to which remained until the 1860. During
the Second World War, the city was the Theatre of the first landings
of the Allies in the peninsula.
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