Rome celebrates its 2,761st birthday today.
Italians sing Happy Birthday to you to the same tune as the British, their words being 'Tanti auguri a te'.
In fact the date was calculated roughly using estimated times for the kings to have reigned before the founding of the Republic, then the historian Varro in the 1st century AD plucked a date out of thin air, but it got imperial approval so must have been right.
In fact there are traces of settlements in the area as much as 10,000 years old.
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