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A significant fraction of all $gamma$-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the fer satellite is still lacking a low-energy counterpart. In addition, there is still a large population of $gamma$-ray sources with associated low-energy counterparts that lack firm classifications. In the last 10 years we have undertaken an optical spectroscopic campaign to address the problem of unassociated/unidentified $gamma$-ray sources (UGSs), mainly devoted to observing blazars and blazar candidates because they are the largest population of $gamma$-ray sources associated to date. Here we describe the overall impact of our optical spectroscopic campaign on sources associated in fer-LAT catalogs, coupled with objects found in the literature. In the literature search, we kept track of efforts by different teams that presented optical spectra of counterparts or potential counterparts of fer-LAT catalog sources. Our summary includes an analysis of an additional 30 newly-collected optical spectra of counterparts or potential counterparts of fer-LAT sources of previously unknown nature.New spectra were acquired at the Blanco 4-m and OAN-SPM 2.1-m telescopes, and those available in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (data release 15) archive. All new sources with optical spectra analyzed here are classified as blazars. Thanks to our campaign, we altogether discovered and classified 394 targets with an additional 123 objects collected from a literature search. We began our optical spectroscopic campaign between the release of the second and third fer-LAT source catalogs (2FGL and 3FGL, respectively), and classified about 25% of the sources with uncertain nature and discovered a blazar-like potential counterpart for $sim$10% of UGSs listed therein. In the 4FGL catalog, about 350 fer-LAT sources are classified to date thanks to our campaign. [incomplete abstract]
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