Milena (Sicily)

Milena
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Free community consortium	Caltanissetta (CL)
Local name	Milocca / Milena
Coordinates	37 ° 28 ' N , 13 ° 44' E Coordinates: 37 ° 28 '0 " N , 13 ° 44' 0" E
height	423 m slm
surface	24 km²
Residents	2,888 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	120 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	93010
prefix	0934
ISTAT number	085010
Popular name	Milenesi
Website	Milena

Milena ( Sicilian Milocca ) is a municipality in the free municipal consortium Caltanissetta in the region of Sicily in Italy with 2888 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Milena is 45 km west of Caltanissetta . The inhabitants mainly work in agriculture or in potassium and rock salt mining.

The neighboring communities are Bompensiere , Campofranco , Grotte ( AG ), Racalmuto (AG) and Sutera .

history

The place was first mentioned in the 13th century. In 1923, today's community emerged from the districts of Milocca (previously Sutera) and San Biaggio (previously Campofranco). It was first called Milocca. In 1933 it was renamed after Milena of Montenegro , mother-in-law of the Italian King Viktor Emanuel III.

Population development

Attractions

The parish church from the 19th century stands on the main square of the village.

An antiquarium shows finds from the area, for example from two tholos-like graves (Tholos A and B) on Monte Campanella, about 2 km southwest of the city center. a. Mycenaean ceramics from the 13th or 12th century BC BC ( SH IIIB or IIIC), pottery in the style of the Sicilian Thapsos culture , two bronze swords and a bronze basin with a recessed bottom and vertical wall, which has parallels in Enkomi on Cyprus and is probably influenced by the Aegean.

To the east of Milena is the village and monastery of San Martino. This was built in the 18th century.

Town twinning

Milena maintains a town partnership with the French community of Aix-les-Bains in the Savoy department .

Web links

Commons : Milena - 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.
↑ La Sicilia 'n Silcilianu by Angela Marino at siciliafan.it
↑ Vincenzo La Rosa: Milena (Agrigento). in: Lucia Vagnetti (ed.), Magna Grecia e mondo miceneo. Nuovi documenti., XXII. Convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia, Taranto 7-11 October 1982 , Taranto 1982, pp. 127-129; on the bronze basin see also Reinhard Jung: ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ COMPARATA. Comparative chronology of southern Greece and southern Italy from approx. 1700/1600 to 1000 BCE Vienna 2006, p. 175 f.

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

[2] La Sicilia 'n Silcilianu by Angela Marino at siciliafan.it

[3] Vincenzo La Rosa: Milena (Agrigento). in: Lucia Vagnetti (ed.), Magna Grecia e mondo miceneo. Nuovi documenti., XXII. Convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia, Taranto 7-11 October 1982 , Taranto 1982, pp. 127-129; on the bronze basin see also Reinhard Jung: ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ COMPARATA. Comparative chronology of southern Greece and southern Italy from approx. 1700/1600 to 1000 BCE Vienna 2006, p. 175 f.