Word: tamburino
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage, and 310,000 people were made homeless. General Antonio Tamburino, military commander of the relief forces in Avellino, one of the hardest-hit provinces, ventured that the dead might number 10,000 or more before the last of the debris was cleared...