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    Salento is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane...
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    are found principally in regions of Calabria and Apulia (peninsula of Salento). The Griko are believed to be remnants of the once large Ancient and Medieval...
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    contribute to this characteristic shape, namely Calabria (the "toe"), Salento (the "heel") and Gargano (the "spur"). The backbone of the Italian Peninsula...
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    Africa (the Tunisian peninsula), by the channel of Sicily. To the east, Salento is 70 km (43 mi) from the Albanian coast, at the narrowest point of the...
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    sul territorio italiano.» Wolftraud De Concini (2003). Gli altri d'Italia : minoranze linguistiche allo specchio. Pergine Valsugana: Comune. p. 196. «Sebbene...
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    Rome (redirect from Comune di Roma)
    comune (municipality) named Comune di Roma Capitale. With 2,860,009 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), Rome is the country's most populated comune...
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    present day. One example is the Griko people in Calabria (Bovesia) and Salento (Grecìa Salentina), some of whom still maintain their Greek language (Griko...
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  • Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri (category Academic staff of the University of Salento)
    was an Italian contemporary archaeologist based at the Università del Salento whose research focused on Italian prehistory. Bietti Sestieri received...
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  • Regional Italian (Italian: italiano regionale, pronounced [itaˈljaːno redʒoˈnaːle]) is any regional variety of the Italian language. Such vernacular varieties...
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    Brindisi (category Localities of Salento)
    topographically flat Salento peninsula is subject to light winds during the majority of the year. The two main winds in Salento are the Maestral and the...
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    Taranta) is a music festival in Salento, Apulia, Italy. The Night of Taranta is focused on Pizzica, a popular folk genre in Salento, and takes place in various...
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    Montesardo (category Localities of Salento)
    winter. The comunes of lower Salento, including Montesardo, are weakly affected by winds due to protection from Serre Salentine [it] (Salento greenhouses)...
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    Oria, Apulia (category Localities of Salento)
    Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo. p. 100. ISBN 978-88-6809-355-6. Retrieved 20 January 2024. Comune of Oria, tourism itinerary...
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    In Salento e Calabria le voci della minoranza linguistica greca Archived 9 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine. F. Violi, Lessico Grecanico-Italiano-Grecanico...
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  • Studi dell'Aquila". www.univaq.it. Retrieved 2019-04-23. "Università del Salento". Unisalento.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-04-23. "IMT Lucca". Imtlucca...
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  • 1st Marquis of Brindisi captures the castle of Brindisi. 1743 – 1743 Salento earthquake. 1860 Brindisi becomes part of the Kingdom of Italy. Circondario...
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    street accordionists with two singers. An example of a pizzica song from Salento region is Kali Nifta (Good night). The lyrics were written in Griko by...
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    Vita (1960). Giò Stajano was born 11 December 1931 in a small village in Salento, Sannicola, in the Kingdom of Italy under Fascism. Her father was Count...
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    the Festival of Saint Rosalia of Palermo, the Notte della Taranta of Salento, the Chilli Festival of Diamante, the Grape Festival of Marino, the Christmas...
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    southern Italy only, in the southern Calabria region (as Grecanic) and in the Salento region (as Griko). It was studied by the German linguist Gerhard Rohlfs...
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    Trebbiano d'Abruzzo  Aosta Valley Valle d'Aosta DOC  Apulia Monti Dauni Salento Nero di Troia Primitivo di Manduria  Basilicata Vulture Aglianico del Vulture...
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    cities in the area. The region is geologically very active, except for Salento in Apulia, and highly seismic: the 1980 Irpinia earthquake killed 2,914...
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    "Catalogo Parametrico dei Terremoti Italiani 2015-Database Macrosismico Italiano 2015". INGV. doi:10.6092/INGV.IT-CPTI15. Retrieved 18 August 2017. "AHEAD...
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    nationalism and regionalism". Itinerari di Ricerca Storica (1). University of Salento: 137–146. doi:10.1285/i11211156a34n1p137. Retrieved 25 May 2022. Mallette...
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    (2006). Dal giglio all'orso: i principi D'Angiò e Orsini del Balzo nel Salento. M. Congedo. ISBN 978-88-8086-683-1. AA. VV. (1970). Vol. 2 - Raccolta...
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  • 3rd Group, in Bari (M114 155mm towed howitzers) 47th Infantry Battalion "Salento" (Recruits Training), in Barletta 89th Infantry Battalion "Salerno" (Recruits...
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    tomato, bechamel and mozzarella cheese, popular especially in Lecce and Salento) The cuisine of Basilicata is mostly based on inexpensive ingredients and...
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    13 July 2008. "Sentenza N. 138 ; Repubblica Italiana in Nome Del Popolo Italiano La Corte Costituzionale". Archived from the original on 28 September 2017...
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    Olive grove in Salento, Apulia...
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    Scoppio del carro in Florence, Infiorate di Spello, Notte della Taranta of Salento, Festa del Redentore in Venice, Macchina di Santa Rosa in Viterbo, Barcolana...
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