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Turin - Casa del Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani March 23, 2023 - 12.00 Participants: Alessandro Barbero From the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD), the symbolic beginning of the decline of the Western Roman Empire, to that of Poitiers (732 AD), the decisive battle that stopped the advance of the Moors in Europe. It is Europe itself, and its ever-changing borders, together with the eternal human need to overcome them, that connects these two battles: the first marks the beginning of a period in which we can speak of the "history of Europe", as a place with a different destiny from that of the Eastern Roman Empire; the second, however, which sees the word "Europeans" appear in the chronicles for the first time, attests to the definition of the borders of Europe as a territory.