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The area of what is now Salerno has been continuously settled since pre-historical times, as the discoveries of Neolithic mummy remains documents. [9] Inhabited by Oscan-speaking populations, the region was colonized by the Etruscans, who founded the city of Irnthi in the 6th century BC, across the Irno river, in what is today city quarter of Fratte, as a part of their Dodecapolis political ...
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...
The Salerno landings were carried out without previous naval or aerial bombardment in order to achieve surprise. Surprise was not achieved. The Germans had established artillery and machine-gun posts and scattered tanks through the landing zones which made progress difficult, but the beach areas were captured.
The Allied invasion of Italy, a phase of the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, took place on 3 September at Reggio di Calabria (Operation Baytown), and on 9 September 1943 at Taranto and Salerno (Operation Slapstick and Operation Avalanche respectively).
The province of Salerno (Italian: provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Geography. This section does not cite any sources.
Constantine the African lecturing to the school of Salerno. Founded in the 9th century, the school was originally based in the dispensary of a monastery.It achieved its greatest celebrity between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, from the last decades of Lombard power, during which its fame began to spread more than locally, to the fall of the Hohenstaufen.
Salerno: 135,818 065117 Salvitelle: 657 065118 San Cipriano Picentino: 6,489 065119 San Giovanni a Piro: 3,819 065120 San Gregorio Magno: 4,621 065121 San Mango Piemonte: 2,355 065122 San Marzano sul Sarno: 9,738 065123 San Mauro Cilento: 993 065124 San Mauro la Bruca: 747 065125 San Pietro al Tanagro: 1,716 065126 San Rufo: 1,799 065127 Santa ...
1799 - Salerno becomes part of the French client Parthenopean Republic. [7] 1817 - University closed. [5] 1843 - Biblioteca Provinciale di Salerno (library) founded. [10] 1860 - Circondario di Salerno (administrative region) established. 1866 - Naples–Salerno railway begins operating; Salerno railway station opens.