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Guerra del Sale

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When the Pope imposed his salt monopoly, our people took up whatever weapons lay to hand; hence the papal mockery that named our uprising the Guerra delle Forche, the War of the Forks. We lost that war and were humiliated (the Baglioni expelled, the Rocca Paolina built directly over their palaces as a stone declaration of contempt) yet the defeat calcified into something more durable than pride. This bone-deep suspicion of outside authority makes every Perugian hill a natural fortress and every invader understand that whatever they take from us will cost more to hold than any strategic advantage can justify.

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