Asculum

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Asculum, also know as Ausculum, was the ancient name of two Italian cities.

The first is Ascoli Piceno, the Ausculum of the Piceni people, and is in the Marche region. It was the location of the Battle of Asculum (89 BC).

The second is Ascoli Satriano, a small village of the Satriani people, on a branch of the Appian Way in Apulia, South East Italy. Two battles were fought there:

the Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
was when King Pyrrhus of Epirus won his Pyrrhic victory against the Roman Republic during the Pyrrhic War and
the Battle of Asculum (209 BC)
in the Second Punic War was when Hannibal defeated a Roman army commanded by Marcus Claudius Marcellus in an indecisive battle.
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