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Naples (/ ˈ n eɪ p əl z / NAY-pəlz; Italian: Napoli ⓘ; Neapolitan: Napule [ˈnɑːpələ]) [a] is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, [3] after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022. [4]
Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,115, down from 19,539 at the 2010 census.
Naples (Italy) and its immediate surroundings preserve an archaeological heritage of inestimable value and among the best in the world. For example, the archaeological park of the Phlegraean Fields (Cumae, Baiae, the Flavian Amphitheatre and the Pozzuoli forum) is directly connected to the centre of Naples through the Cumana railway, and the nearby sites of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and ...
The history of Naples is long and varied, dating to Greek settlements established in the Naples area in the 2nd millennium BC. [1] During the end of the Greek Dark Ages a larger mainland colony – initially known as Parthenope – developed on the Pizzofalcone hill in the 8th century BC, [ 2 ] and was refounded as Neapolis in the 6th century ...
The Metropolitan City of Naples (Italian: città metropolitana di Napoli) is a metropolitan city in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Naples . The province was established on 1 January 2015 and contains 92 comuni ( sg. : comune ).
Map of Naples, 1572 An 18th-century painting depicting an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Naples. The Naples area has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. The earliest historical sources in the area were left by the Myceneans in the 2nd millennium BC. During its long history, Naples ...
The Peninsula separates the Gulf of Naples from the Gulf of Salerno, which includes the Amalfi Coast. The islands of Capri , Ischia and Procida are located in the Gulf of Naples. [ 1 ] The area is a tourist destination, with the seaside Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius (destroyed in the AD 79 eruption of ...
Naples, which was the capital of the Duchy of Naples since the 7th century, surrendered to Roger II of Sicily in 1137, and was annexed to the Kingdom of Sicily. [6] The Normans were the first to bring political unity to southern Italy in the centuries after the failure of the Byzantine effort to reconquer Italy.