Trebisacce

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Trebisacce
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Trebisacce (Italy)
Trebisacce
Country Italy
region Calabria
province Cosenza  (CS)
Coordinates 39 ° 52 '  N , 16 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 52 '0 "  N , 16 ° 32' 0"  E
height 73  m slm
surface 26 km²
Residents 8,908 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 343 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 87075
prefix 0981
ISTAT number 078150
Popular name trebisaccesi
Patron saint San Leonardo, Others: Madonna del Rosario and San Rocco
Website Trebisacce

Trebisacce is an Italian commune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region with 8908 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Trebisacce is 93 km northeast of Cosenza and has a train station on the Tarent – ​​Reggio di Calabria railway line .

The neighboring municipalities are: Albidona , Plataci and Villapiana .

Surroundings

The Broglio archaeological park is located around two kilometers west of the town center . A prehistoric settlement named after him was discovered here on the hill Broglio di Trebisacce , which has been archaeologically researched almost continuously since the 1970s . It existed from around 1700 to around 700 BC. Finds of Mycenaean ceramics show trade contacts with Mycenaean Greece from around 1400 BC. In the 13th century BC. Intensify and until at least 1100 BC. Are detectable. In addition to original Mycenaean ceramics made in Greece, many fragments of so-called Italo-Mycenaean ceramics came to light. These are vessels that are painted in a strongly Mycenaean style, but were made in Italy.

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ A detailed study of the Mycenaean ceramics from Broglio di Trebisacce by Reinhard Jung: ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ COMPARATA. Comparative chronology of southern Greece and southern Italy from approx. 1700/1600 to 1000 BCE Vienna 2006, pp. 104–126.