Pamplona
City · 74 BCE · in Europe
Capital of Kingdom of Navarre (1162–1428).
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- Cicero (106 BCE – 43 BCE): Roman statesman, lawyer and orator whose speeches, letters and philosophical works became models of Latin prose.
- Virgil (70 BCE – 19 BCE): Roman poet from near Mantua whose Aeneid, on the Trojan origins of Rome, became the national epic of Rome.
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