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Salerno is an Italian town of 132 041 inhabitants, the capital of the province of the same name in Campania, the second largest municipality in the region by number of inhabitants.

During the Middle Ages, the city experienced, under the Longobard domination, one of the most important historical phases, having been the capital of the Principality of Salerno, a territory that gradually came to include a large part of the Italian continental South.

Salerno is home to the Salerno Medical School, which was the first and most important medical institution in Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages and as such is considered by many to be a forerunner of modern universities. Since 1968 the city has been the seat of the University of Salerno, located since 1988, as a campus, in the nearby municipalities of Fisciano and Baronissi.

From February to August 1944 Salerno was the seat of the Italian government, hosting the Badoglio I, Badoglio II and Bonomi II governments that led to the Salerno turnaround.