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Lucanica was a rustic pork sausage in ancient Roman cuisine. Apicius documents it as a spicy, smoked beef or pork sausage originally from Lucania; according to Cicero and Martial, it was brought by Roman soldiers from Lucania. It has given its name to a variety of sausages (fresh, cured, and smoked) in Mediterranean cuisine and its colonial offshoots, including: Italian luganega or lucanica Portuguese and Brazilian linguiça Bulgarian lukanka or loukanka Macedonian (Western dialects) lukanec/луканец or lukanci/луканци Albanian (Arbëresh community in Italy) likëngë or lekëngë, also llukanik in Albania.
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