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Pompeii
Pompeii
was an
ancient Roman
town-city near modern
Naples
, in the
Campania
region of Italy, in the territory of the
comune
of
Pompei
. Pompeii, along with
Herculaneum
and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under of
volcanic ash
and
pumice
in the
eruption
of
Mount Vesuvius
in 79 AD.
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