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Matera

The cave-dwelling Sassi, inhabited since the Palaeolithic — one of the oldest continuously lived-in places on Earth.

Dated events and their evidence

• 9,000 BCE mainstream
  the Sassi settled; continuous habitation from the Palaeolithic source
• 1952 CE mainstream
  the state forcibly clears the Sassi as unfit to live in (to the 1970s) source
• 1993 CE mainstream
  UNESCO World Heritage: the Sassi and rupestrian churches source

Where

40.6670° N, 16.6000° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matera

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