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- Lowland stretch of the Italian peninsula,
- including and surrounding the city of Rome.
- Lying between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the
- Sabine Hills to the NE, and the Alban Hills
- to the SE, it is drained by the lower course
- of the river Tiber and a number of small
- streams, most of which dry up in the summer.
- Prosperous in Roman times, it later became
- virtually derelict through over-grazing, lack
- of water, and the arrival in the area of the
- malaria-carrying Anopheles mosquito.
- Extensive land reclamation and drainage in
- the 19th and 20th centuries restored its
- usefulness.
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