Mount Vesuvius
[ (vuh-sooh-vee-uhs) ]
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Volcano, in southwestern Italy on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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notes for Mount Vesuvius
notes for Mount Vesuvius
One of its earliest recorded eruptions, in a.d. 79, buried Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae under cinders, ash, and mud.
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