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Rubicon (Rubicō, Italian: Rubicone) is a 29 km long river in northern Italy. The river flows from the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea through the southern Emilia-Romagna region between the towns of Rimini and Cesena.
"Crossing the Rubicon" is a popular idiom meaning to go past a point of no return and refers to Julius Caesar crossing the river in 49 BC deliberately as an act of war.
Since the river has changed its riverbed many times through the years, it is not possible to affirm where the original Rubicon flowed when Julius Caesar crossed it. However, it is common to identify those historical waters to be the current Pisciatello river.
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