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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="1" ns="0" title="Main Page">
        <links>
          <pl ns="0" title="AUC" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Citizen (Nova Roma)" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Civic life (Nova Roma)" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Consular Years (Nova Roma)" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Cultus deorum Romanorum" />
          <pl ns="0" title="In memory of L. Equitius Cincinnatus Augur" />
          <pl ns="0" title="MMDCCLXXIX" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Main Page" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Nova Romanitas" />
          <pl ns="0" title="Res Publica Nova Romana" />
        </links>
      </page>
    </pages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <links plcontinue="1|0|Roman dates" />
  </query-continue>
</api>