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First
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The
first settlings date back to several centuries before Christ;
the most famous remains from those times are some stelae; one of
them, now in Sarzana, became symbol of Val di Magra. The populations
that first inhabited this region were the so called Liguri-Apuani
and they were essentially devoted to cattle breeding. We don't know
much about them, and the mystery surrounding their origins makes
them even more fascinating.
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Of
all legends about the Liguri-Apuani, perhaps the most intriguing
one says they were coming from east, by sea, and they left those
stelae going up the Magra river and its tributaries. An oriental
origin of these population is plausible, if we are ready to accept
an ancient etymology of the river's name: Magra would come from
the Accadian term "makru", which meant "to irrigate".
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