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The
arrival of the Longobards in the 6th century AD took place in
a Molise disheartened by the grave economic and social crisis. In the 7th
century, they, who had included the present-day region in the Duchy of
Benevento, encouraged the re-population of the abandoned areas. The Duke
of Benevento, Romualdo, gathered a colony of Bulgarians and sent them
into the area of land situated between Sepino and Venafro. At the
beginning of the 8th century, three nobles of Benevento
founded the abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno.
The
attacks of the Saracens caused the population to move towards sites that
were easier to defend, thereby initiating the fortification process. In
the first decades of the year thousand the Longobards were replaced by
the Normans. The county of Molise came into being, never knowing peace,
up until the battle with the Swabians, which ended with the predominance
of the Swabians (end of the 12th C.). The new rulers tried to
rebuff the Angevins who took possession of the current Molise in 1266.
After that it was the turn of the Aragonese to govern the area.
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