Monteparano
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Country | Italy | |
region | Apulia | |
province | Tarent (TA) | |
Coordinates | 40 ° 27 ' N , 17 ° 25' E | |
height | 135 m slm | |
surface | 3.0 km² | |
Residents | 2,340 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 780 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 74020 | |
prefix | 099 | |
ISTAT number | 073018 | |
Popular name | Monteparanesi | |
Patron saint | Kajetan von Thiene , Cosmas and Damian , Josef von Nazaret (August 7, September 26, March 19) | |
Website | Monteparano |
Monteparano (in the local dialect: Muntiparanu ) is a south-eastern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 2340 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Taranto in Apulia . The municipality is located about 15 kilometers east-southeast of Taranto in Salento . Monteparano is part of the Unione dei Comuni di Montedoro .
history
In the years 1460/61 the troops of the Prince of Albania , Georg Kastriota, called Skanderbeg , destroyed the "Casali" (plural of "Casale"; Italian name for a house or a group of houses in the country) in the province of Taranto , their feudal lords were allied with the rebel Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo , last Prince of Taranto , against the Spanish King of Naples, Ferdinand I , from the House of Aragon.
After the victory, Skanderbeg returned home with some of the troops, while a large part of the troops received permission to settle in Apulia, where they founded "Albania Salentina" (Salentine Albania).
traffic
The Strada Statale 7ter Appia runs through the municipality .
Web links
- Il Casale di Monteparano , accessed November 20, 2016 (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Vincenza Musardo Talò: Il Casale di Monteparano. accessed on November 20, 2016 (Italian)
- ↑ Pasquale Pandolfini: Albania e Puglia: vicende storiche, political e religious fra le due sponde dell'Adriatico . In: Biblos . tape 14 , no. 28 , 2007, pp. 85 (Italian).