Blera

Blera
Country	Italy
region	Lazio
province	Viterbo  (VT)
Coordinates	42 ° 16 '  N , 12 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 16 '24 "  N , 12 ° 1' 57"  E
height	270  m slm
surface	93 km²
Residents	3,127 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	34 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	01010
prefix	0761
ISTAT number	056007
Popular name	Blerani
Patron saint	San Vivenzio
Website	Blera
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Place name sign of Blera

Blera is an Italian commune in the province of Viterbo in the Lazio region with 3127 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

View of Blera

geography

Location of Blera in the province of Viterbo

Blera is located in the Monti Sabatini between Lake Bracciano and Lake Vico , 92 kilometers northwest of Rome .

history

Blera was an important Etruscan city under the original name of Plera . During the 3rd century BC The territory became part of the Roman Empire . The Romans built the Via Clodia , which connected Blera with Rome and other important places in the empire.

In 772 AD Blera was destroyed by the Lombards under Desiderius , their last king. In 1247 the city was devastated by the troops of Frederick II . 1465 she came under control of the popes and was in 1572 the Papal States annexed to which it belonged until 1870, when he created the new Kingdom of Italy came up.

Etruscan necropolis in Blera

population

year	1871	1901	1921	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011
population	1769	2332	2630	3245	3137	3193	3208	3363

Source ISTAT

politics

Elena Tolomei (Citizen List Elena Tolomei Sindaco ) was elected mayor on May 31, 2015 with 42.39%. She replaced Francesco Ciarlanti (2005-2010), who was clearly subject to her in the election with 18.38%.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Sabinianus († 606), Pope

literature

• Edward Herbert Bunbury:  Blera . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
• Edmund Richardson:  BLERA Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

Web links

Commons : Blera  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Municipality (Italian)
• Information about Blera (Italian)
• Blera on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT . Population statistics from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, as of December 31, 2011.
3. ↑ La Repubblica , accessed June 1, 2015.
4. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior