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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 ...
1920 - Società salernitana di storia patria (history society) founded. 1926 - Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport established. 1936 - Population: 67,186. 1937 - Salerno trolleybus begins operating. 1943 - 9 September: Salerno besieged by Allied forces during World War II. [7] [1] 1944 - Salerno is Capital of Italy for some months
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.
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 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 ...
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 .
The first to remember the women of Salerno was a historian from Salerno, Antonio Mazza, prior of the School of Medicine in the seventeenth century, who in the essay "Historiarum epitome de rebus salernitanis" [16] writes: "We have many learned women, who in many fields surpassed or equalled by ingenuity and doctrine many men and, like men, were ...
Ravello (Campanian: Raviello, Reviello) is a comune (municipality) situated above the Amalfi Coast, in the province of Salerno, Campania, with approximately 2,500 inhabitants. Its scenic location makes it a popular tourist destination, and earned it a listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.