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"Times New Roman";color:black" lang="EN-US">.The earliest reliable records of the area are
in the 7th century work
Cosmographia by an anonymous cleric of Ravenna. The name of the town most probably originates
from theGreek "pyrranos", which means "red", because of the
reddish flysch stones commonly found in the town's area.
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