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When and where did Benito Mussolini found the fasci di combattimento?

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Benito Mussolini founded the fasci di combattimento in 1919 in Milan, Italy. The organization was established at a meeting held in an office located in the Piazza San Sepolcro, where a group of approximately 200 individuals—including revolutionaries, veterans, and political dissidents—gathered to form a new political force.1