Ruvo di Puglia

Ruvo di Puglia
Country	Italy
region	Apulia
Metropolitan city	Bari  (BA)
Coordinates	41 ° 7 ′  N , 16 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
height	260  m slm
surface	221 km²
Residents	25,090 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	114 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	70037
prefix	080
ISTAT number	072038
Popular name	Ruvesi
Patron saint	Blaise of Sebaste , Rochus of Montpellier , Anaclet
Website	Ruvo di Puglia

Ruvo di Puglia is a southern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 25,090 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Bari in the Apulia region . The municipality is located in the middle of the Murgia , a karst landscape in southern Italy, about 30 kilometers west of Bari . It borders on the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani .

The co-cathedral in Ruvo, built around. 12./13. century

history

Greek settlements existed in this area since the 9th century BC. Coins from the 3rd century BC indicate the village with the name Rhyps or Rhybasteion . The Romans built a fortress here on the Via Traiana . A change station was previously known under the name Rubi . In the Middle Ages, the settlement came into the possession of the Counts of Conversano , and later the Neapolitan noble Carafa family .

Personalities

• Domenico Cotugno (1736–1822), anatomist and clinician
• Pasquale Testini (1924–1989), Christian archaeologist
• Pino Minafra (* 1951), jazz musician
• Nicolas Girasoli (* 1957), Roman Catholic clergyman, archbishop and diplomat
• Gianluca Basile (* 1975), basketball player

See also

• Bari – Barletta railway line

supporting documents

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Rainer Brömer: Domenico Cotugno. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 276.

Web links

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