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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 largest towns in the province are: Salerno, the capital, which has a population of 131,950; Cava de' Tirreni, Battipaglia and Nocera Inferiore, all having around 50,000 inhabitants. The province has an area of 4,923 km 2 (1,901 sq mi), and a total population of about 1.1 million.
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.
Salerno was besieged by the Normans of Robert Guiscard and Prince Richard I of Capua until it fell on 13 December 1076. Prince Gisulf II surrendered the next year and the principality, the final Lombard state in Italy, fell. Salerno became the capital of Guiscard's duchy of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily.
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.
The Principality of Salerno (Latin: Principatus Salerni) was a medieval Southern Italian state, formed in 851 out of the Principality of Benevento after a decade-long civil war. It was centred on the port city of Salerno .
Salerno Cathedral (or duomo) is the main church in the city of Salerno in southern Italy and a major tourist attraction. It is dedicated to Saint Matthew , whose relics are inside the crypt. The Cathedral was built when the city was the capital of the Principality of Salerno , over a more ancient church ("Church of S. Maria degli Angeli and S ...