Soleto

Soleto
Country	Italy
region	Apulia
province	Lecce  (LE)
Coordinates	40 ° 11 ′  N , 18 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
height	90  m slm
surface	29 km²
Residents	5,341 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	184 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	73010
prefix	0836
ISTAT number	075076
Popular name	Soletani
Patron saint	Sant'Antonio da Padova
Website	Soleto

Panorama of Soleto

Soleto is a city in the Italian province of Lecce in Apulia , Italy .

geography

The city has 5341 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Soleto is one of the nine cities of Grecìa Salentina , Salentine Greece, in which Greek is spoken. The neighboring municipalities are Corigliano d'Otranto , Galatina , Martano , San Donato di Lecce , Sternatia and Zollino ,

history

The inhabitants of Soletos are descendants of Greek settlers who have lived since the 8th century BC. Founded colonies in Italy and Sicily . They speak Griko , a dialect that emerged from Doric Greek but evolved independently from Hellenistic Greek . The inhabitants of the city call themselves Grekos , derived from the Latin Graecus , and consider themselves Hellenes .

In the 5th century Soleto was the bishopric of a diocese of the then still unified Christian church in which the Greek rite was cultivated. In the 13th century Soleto became the capital of a county that until 1806 was ruled by the families di Castro, Del Balzo, Orsini , Campofregoso, Castriota and Sanseverino , Carafa and Gallarati-Scotti.

Soleto took part in the Parthenopean Republic and was a center of the Carbonari during the Italian Risorgimento .

traffic

The station Soleto lies on the railway line Lecce-Gallipoli .

Individual evidence

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

Web links

Commons : Soleto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Soleto Online (in Italian )