Lesina (Apulia)

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Lesina (Italy)
Lesina
Country Italy
region Apulia
province Foggia  (FG)
Coordinates 41 ° 51 '  N , 15 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 51 '11 "  N , 15 ° 21' 47"  E
height 5  m slm
surface 159.74 km²
Residents 6,302 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 39 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 71010
prefix 0882
ISTAT number 071027
Popular name lesinesi
Patron saint San Primiano Martire
Website http://www.comunelesina.it/

Lesina is a small town in Italy . It is located in the province of Foggia , 57 km north of the provincial capital, and is part of the Gargano National Park . The place in the Capitanata has 6302 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). Districts are Marina di Lesina , Ripalta with the former Cistercian monastery and Torre Mileto . The neighboring municipalities are Apricena , Poggio Imperiale , San Paolo di Civitate , San Nicandro Garganico and Serracapriola .

In the saline lagoon Lake Lesina are eels bred. The cathedral was built in the 12th century.

history

The Roman settlement Alexina (in the form of Alesina , the name is also used in the Middle Ages) is mainly proven epigraphically . In the Byzantine period, the place was large enough to serve as an alternative residence for the bishops of Lucera after the destruction of their city by Constans II . At the beginning of the 11th century, the bishops of Lucera also reside in Lesina. Whether it is a renewed emergency or an ongoing tradition cannot be determined. Under the Lombard rule, Alesina was initially the seat of a Gastalden , later a count. Since the eighth century, the Montecassino monastery had possessions in the territory of Lesina, which was also confirmed by Otto II in Lucera in 981. A little later, San Vincenzo al Volturno was also given property. The Norman county is documented many times in the Catalogus baronum , the fiefdom index that was finalized under Wilhelm II . Count Gottfried von Lesina also made a donation to San Clemente in Casauria . From the Hohenstaufen Quaternus excadenciarum the royal demanial property is known, which was issued. From the time of Gregory IX. Until the middle of the 16th century, Lesina was an independent diocese.

literature

  • Michele Colozzi: Sulla genesi del territorio e diritti di uso civico per Lesina: con atti e note illustrative . Sansevero: E. Dotoli 1932.
  • Tommaso Leccisotti : Le colonie cassinesi in Capitanata I: Lesina (sec. VIII-XI) . Montecassino 1937 Miscellanea cassinese; 13.
  • Nicola Lidio Savino: Lesina: lineamenti di storia e folklore, l'ambiente e le sue componenti . Foggia 1985
  • Maria Carosella: Repertoriazione del patrimonio paremiologico dialettale di Lesina (FG) . Roma: Nuova Cultura, 2005 ISBN 88-89362-39-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ Walther Holtzmann , Italia Pontificia IX: Samnium - Apulia - Lucania . Berlin 1962, p. 161
  3. ↑ RI II 2 n. 859
  4. ↑ Errico Cuozzo, Catalogus baronum. Commentario . Roma 1984, p. 93 ff. § 377 and so on. (Fonti per la storia d'Italia, 101 **)
  5. ^ Giuseppe De Troia: Foggia e la Capitanata nel Quaternus excadenciarum di Federico II di Svevia. Fasano (BR): Schena editore 1994, p. 315ff. ISBN 88-7514-732-9

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