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Latifundium

In Ancient Rome, a latifundium was a great landed estate specialising in agriculture destined for sale: grain, olive oil, or wine. They were characteristic of Magna Graecia and Sicily, Egypt, Northwest Africa and Hispania Baetica. The latifundia were the closest approximation to industrialised agriculture in antiquity, and their economics depended upon slavery.

Italy
In the 6th century, Cassiodorus was able to apply his own latifundia to support his short-lived Vivarium in the heel of Italy. In Sicily, latifundia dominated the island from medieval times. They were only abolished by sweeping land reform mandating smaller farms in 1950–1962, funded from the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, the Italian government's development fund for southern Italy (1950–1984). ==Examples of latifundia==
Examples of latifundia
Villa Romana del Casale (Sicily) • Villa Romana del Tellaro (Sicily) • Villa of Geraci (Sicily) • Villa Romana di Patti (Sicily) • Villa dei Volusii (Rome) • Settefinestre (Tuscany) • Realmonte (Sicily) • Villa of Casignana (Calabria) == See also ==
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