San Benedetto Ullano

San Benedetto Ullano
Country	Italy
region	Calabria
province	Cosenza  (CS)
Coordinates	39 ° 26 '  N , 16 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 26 '0 "  N , 16 ° 7' 0"  E
height	460  m slm
surface	19 km²
Residents	1,464 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	77 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	87040
prefix	0984
ISTAT number	078112
Popular name	Sanbenedettesi ( Albanian : Shënbenedhitan)
Website	San Benedetto Ullano
San Benedetto Ullano

San Benedetto Ullano (in Arbëresh , IPA : [ar'bəreʃ] : Shën Benedhiti ) is an Italian municipality with 1464 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Cosenza in Calabria .

The area of ​​the municipality is at an altitude of 460 m above sea level and covers an area of ​​19 km² . San Benedetto Ullano is located about 29 km northwest of Cosenza . The neighboring communities are Fuscaldo , Lattarico and Montalto Uffugo .

Seismic activity

According to the Italian classification for seismic activity , San Benedetto Ullano was assigned to zone 1 (on a scale from 1 to 4). An earthquake was recorded on August 9, 1621 with a magnitude of 5.17.

history

The place has very old origins and the first historical records go back to the end of the 12th century when it was a fiefdom of the Norman dukes of Montalto and a Benedictine monastery would have been founded there, which would have given the place its name, but any of them Sources are missing. The medieval “Borgo” (Italian for Burgus, fortified place ”) had a decisive demographic and economic boom in the second half of the 15th century with a subsequent urban development when it was settled by Albanian refugees ( Arbëresh ) around 1478 .

In October 1732 Pope Clement XII founded in San Benedetto Ullano the “Collegio Corsini”, a university whose aims were very specific. It was to provide education, instruction in classical literature and in the philosophical and theological sciences, as well as training young Italo-Albanians, prospective priests of the Byzantine Rite , to meet the spiritual needs of the Albanians of the Kingdom of Naples and the missions of the Eastern Greeks . With the establishment of the college with Byzantine rite, Pope Clement XII decreed. the Greco-Byzantine rite on Italian soil.

literature

• Vincenzo Rodotà: San Benedetto Ullano: Raccolta di notizie, documenti, ricerche storiche ed il contributo dei Rodotà dé Coronei alla storia e alla cultura Nazionale Albanese . Luigi Pellegrini Editore, Cosenza 2013, p. 28 (Italian).

Web links

Commons : San Benedetto Ullano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information at comuni-italiani.it (Italian)
• San Benedetto Ullano

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Seismic classification of the municipality of San Benedetto Ullano , accessed on February 2, 2017
3. ↑ Ordinanza PCM n.3274 of March 20, 2003
4. ↑ Lista storica dei terremoti dal 217 ac al 2002 dc ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (List of historical earthquakes from 217 BC-2002 AD) 
5. ↑ I novant'anni della Eparchia di Lungro (The 90th Anniversary of the Eparchy of Lungro). In: Arbitalia.it. Retrieved February 2, 2017 (Italian). 
6. ↑ Raynaldo Perugini: La presenza ed il ruolo della chiesa greco - ortodossa in Italia in: Storia e metodi dell'analisi dell'architettura, S. Atanasio dei Greci e Collegio greco . Storia e Letteratura, p. 28 (Italian).