Mafalda (Molise)

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Mafalda
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Mafalda (Italy)
Mafalda
Country Italy
region Molise
province Campobasso  (CB)
Coordinates 41 ° 57 '  N , 14 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 57 '0 "  N , 14 ° 43' 0"  E
height 436  m slm
surface 32 km²
Residents 1,152 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 36 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 86030
prefix 0875
ISTAT number 070036
Popular name Mafaldesi
Patron saint San Valentino (February 14th)
Website Mafalda

Mafalda is an Italian commune with 1152 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Campobasso in the Molise region . The place is about 180 kilometers east of Rome , 45 kilometers north of Campobasso and 20 kilometers from the Adriatic coast .

The place is in the Monti di Ferentani, a promontory of Abruzzo above the border river to the Abruzzo region , the Trigno.

Mafalda was called Ripalta sul Trigno until 1903 . It was created in honor of the birth of the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III. Mafalda , who died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944 , was renamed.

The medieval town center is grouped around the parish church of Sant'Andrea Apostolo and the Palazzo Juliani.

history

Mafalda goes back to a founding of the Normans in the 12th century and belonged to the Norman noble family D 'Alitto. During the rule of the House of Anjou over the Kingdom of Naples , the place was known as Trespaldum .

The place was uninhabited in the 15th century. In 1457 it came to the D'Evoli family, who settled immigrants from the Balkans in the village now called Ripalta. But as early as 1780 Giuseppe Maria Galanti reported in his description of the kingdom that the inhabitants had lost their own language and spoke bad Italian.

At the beginning of the 17th century, Ripalta was bought by Alfonso Piscicelli for 28,000 ducats and after his death was again sold to the Caracciolo family, who ruled the place until the end of the feudal period.

population

year population
1871 2,085
1901 2,585
1921 2,484
1951 2,559
1971 1,859
1991 1,507
2001 1,340

politics

Nicola Valentini (Intesa Democratica) was elected mayor in June 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Galanti, Jos. Maria, new and historical description of both Sicily, translated from Italian by CJ Jagemann, 3rd volume, Leipzig 1791
  3. ↑ ISTAT

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