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The '''Fabrianese''' is a modern [[breed]] of domestic [[sheep]] from the [[Marche]] region of central [[Italy]].<ref name=bigi/><ref name=dad/> It takes its name from the town and [[comune]] of [[Fabriano]], in the [[province of Ancona]]. The Fabrianese was created as a dual-purpose breed in the 1960s by cross-breeding local breeds of the [[Apennines]] of the Marche with rams of the [[Bergamasca (sheep)|Bergamasca]] breed from the [[Alps]] of [[Lombardy]]. It is raised in the eastern foothills of the Apennines, in the [[provinces of Italy|provinces]] of Ancona, [[province of Ascoli Piceno|Ascoli Piceno]] and [[province of Macerata|Macerata]] in the Marche, and in the [[province of Terni]] in [[Umbria]].<ref name=bigi/>