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Mount Vesuvius

  1. Volcano , in southwestern Italy on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea .


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Notes

One of its earliest recorded eruptions, in a.d. 79, buried Pompeii , Herculaneum, and Stabiae under cinders, ash, and mud.
It is the only active volcano on the mainland of Europe . (Another, Mount Etna, is on the island of Sicily .)

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