Concordia Sagittaria

Concordia Sagittaria
Country	Italy
region	Veneto
Metropolitan city	Venice (VE)
Local name	Concordia Sagittaria / ; Concuardie ( fur )
Coordinates	45 ° 45 ' N , 12 ° 51' E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 '21 " N , 12 ° 50' 43" E
height	4 m slm
surface	66.50 km²
Residents	10,370 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	156 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	30023
prefix	0421
ISTAT number	027011
Popular name	Concordiesi
Patron saint	Santo Stefano
Website	Concordia Sagittaria

The cathedral with the baptistery (left) from the 11th century

Concordia Sagittaria is a municipality in the Italian metropolitan city of Venice with 10,370 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located on the Lemene River immediately south of the city of Portogruaro and about 80 km northeast of Venice . Concordia is the bishopric of the Roman Catholic diocese of Concordia-Pordenone . Neighboring municipalities are Caorle , Portogruaro and San Stino di Livenza .

history

During the last maximum freezing around 25,000 to 17,000 years ago, the sea level on the upper Adriatic was around 120 m below today's level. After that, the sea level rose to around 5000 BC. Chr. Relatively quickly, whereby it was still 10 m below today's. After that, the increase slowed down and strong fluctuations can be detected. Investigations on microorganisms revealed the spread of salt marshes in the area of the city around 4700 BC. Prove, while around 2500 BC. Chr. Fresh water prevailed again.

In the summer of 2012 a site was excavated near Loncon, five kilometers south-southwest of Concordia Sagittaria, which dates back to the late Neolithic . The artefacts reveal a temporary use in the vicinity of a previously undiscovered village, the cultural orientation refers to Istria . Ceremonial laying down of skulls, especially of a wild boar and a wolf, has been proven. The subsequent settlement phase in Loncon belongs to the older Bronze Age . Especially a fountain from the 10th / 9th centuries. Century BC BC documents the transition phase from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age . All three phases, in this case marked by drastic cultural changes, have so far hardly been documented in the largest plain in Italy, apart from the higher-lying sites.

In ancient times the place was a 42 BC Chr., Founded Roman colony called Iulia Concordia (since August ), at the site where the Roman Via Annia and Via Postumia crossed. Inscriptions from Concordia can be found in CIL V 1866–1955, 8654–8781, 8987–8989.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire , Concordia came under the Lombard rule of Cividale . Later it was part of the Friuli march of the Frankish Empire , then it came under the rule of the Patriarchs of Aquileia . In 1420, like all of Friuli, it fell to Venice.

Since there was an important bullet factory in the village, the nickname Sagittaria arose .

Population development

1871	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011
2,657	3,074	5,017	6,368	8,298	9.216	10,558	10,492	10,640

Attractions

The baptistery from the 11th century, the Cathedral of San Stefano from 1466 and the bishop's palace from the 15th century are worth seeing .

Sons and daughters of the church

Rufinus of Aquileia (approx. 345–411 / 412), church writer
Antonio Carneo (1637-1692), painter
Carlo Furlanis (1939-2013), football player

literature

Pierangela Croce Da Villa, Elena Di Filippo Balestrazzi (eds.): Concordia Sagittaria. Tremilla Anni di Storia. Esedra, Padua 2001, ISBN 88-864-1354-8 .
Sebastian Ristow : Concordia Sagittaria . In: Real Lexicon for Antiquity and Christianity . Supplement volume 2, delivery 11. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7772-0421-8 , Sp. 389-401.

Web links

Commons : Concordia Sagittaria - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ Antonella Miola, Sonia Favaretto, Ismaele Sostizzo, Gianna Valentini and Alessandra Asioli: Holocene salt marsh plant communities in the North Adriatic coastal plain (Italy) as reflected by pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and plant macrofossil analyzes. In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19, 5-6 (November 2010) pp. 513-529.
↑ Cinzia Rossignoli, Elda Pujatti, David Vicenzutto, Paolo Reggiani, Gaspare De Angeli, Veronica Groppo: Concordia Sagittaria, località Loncon. Scavo di un sito multifase di età preistorica , in: Note di Archeologia del Veneto 1 (2012), pp. 59–68.

[1] Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

[2] Antonella Miola, Sonia Favaretto, Ismaele Sostizzo, Gianna Valentini and Alessandra Asioli: Holocene salt marsh plant communities in the North Adriatic coastal plain (Italy) as reflected by pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and plant macrofossil analyzes. In: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19, 5-6 (November 2010) pp. 513-529.

[3] Cinzia Rossignoli, Elda Pujatti, David Vicenzutto, Paolo Reggiani, Gaspare De Angeli, Veronica Groppo: Concordia Sagittaria, località Loncon. Scavo di un sito multifase di età preistorica , in: Note di Archeologia del Veneto 1 (2012), pp. 59–68.