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How San Marino stayed independent for centuries
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While massive empires aggressively rose and violently fell all around them, this tiny speck of a nation just stayed out of the way. Founded in the year 301 by a stonemason hiding on a mountain, it somehow avoided being absorbed into Italy by just being incredibly polite to conquerors. They literally survived by flying under the radar for centuries.
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