The Lombard Principality of Salerno was a South Italian state, centered on the port city of Salerno, formed in 851 out of the Principality of Benevento after a decade-long civil war.
Through its origins, it owed allegiance to the Western Emperor, but throughout its history it was practically independent and for brief periods even entered into the vassalage of the Byzantine Empire.
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