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    Policoro (Lucano: Pulecòre) is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. With some 17,000 inhabitants...
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    evening 7 December 2014, Mango suffered a heart attack during a concert in Policoro, province of Matera. While performing the song "Oro", he raised an arm...
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    (modern Sinni). The ruins of the city are located in the modern comune of Policoro in the Province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy. It was a Greek colony, but...
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    Commune Population Matera 60,432 Policoro 17,694 Pisticci 17,602 Bernalda 12,453 Montescaglioso 9,877...
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    pulce di Policoro (The flea from Policoro) Il lupo dello Jonio (The wolf of the Ionian) Dom-Dom Born (1982-11-30) 30 November 1982 (age 41) Policoro, Italy...
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    researcher of Radiology and Imaging at Harvard Medical School. He was born in Policoro, Basilicata, Italy, in 1975. He was raised in Bernalda, a small town in...
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    Metaurus (Gioia Tauro); Taras together with Thurii founded Heracleia (Policoro) in Lucania in 434 BC, and also Callipolis ('beautiful city'). At the beginning...
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    Jonico, and Scanzano Jonico before flowing into the Gulf of Taranto near Policoro. The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (13 ed.). London: Times Books...
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    curving southeast and finally flowing into the Gulf of Taranto south of Policoro. The river Siris is mentioned by Lycophron (Alex. 982), as well as by Archilochus...
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    Maratea, nicknamed "The Pearl of Tyrrhenian Sea", but also the Ionian coast (Policoro, Pisticci, Bernalda, Nova Siri) is fairly developed. Naturalistic attractions...
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