Latium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Latium. The fertile coastal plain became marshy, malaria-infested, and impoverished during the late Roman Empire and early Republic. After the fall of Rome, Latium was invaded in turn by the Visigoths, the Vandals, and the Lombards. From the 8th cent...