Campania

The Area of Campania (in Italian: Regione Campania ), more usually called the Campania , is a Région of southernmost Italy. The word " Campanie" is formed of the contraction of two Latin terms: the word " campus" (the countryside) and the name of the town of Capoue (" Capua") who was then the principal city of this southernmost area of the Italian peninsula.

Blazon and Standard

The Area of the Campania has its own Blason and Standard, recognized by the Regional Law N.1 the 21-07-1971 of the Area of the Campania.

Heraldic Desription of the Blazon

The Area of the Campania obtained the blazon that the maritime Republic of Amalfi had been given. The blazon consists of a red band on white zone. Speaking Héraldiquement, that gives us: Money to the band of mouths .

Geography

The Campania extends to the west from the chain from the the Apennines, since Garigliano, in North, to the gulf of Policastro, in the South. Its fertile grounds surround the Gulf of Naples; the cultures of tobacco and cereals are alternated with the vineyards and the olive-trees like with the orange trees and especially with the lemon trees. Here the best tomatos are also produced. The area is dominated by the dangerous silhouette of the Vesuvius, always celebrates volcano in activity. Capital of the Pizza pie and the Italian folklore in the world (songs and spectacles like Tarantelle), Naples is the port of an area which tends more and more to industrialize (food industries (in particular for the production of pastes), steel-works, refineries of gas and oil, mechanical engineering industries. Tourism is also important.

History

Set up in province with whole share at the time of the Dioclétien emperor, the Campania was then under Byzantine domination lombarde then.

It was then parcelled out by independence that some of its cities assumed.

The Norman kings of Sicily did not have great evil to conquer it starting from XIe century and to integrate it into the Royaume of Sicily.

It recovered a certain independence at the times when, in consequence of the revolt known as of the sicilian Vêpres (1282), existed simultaneously two kingdoms of Sicily, one installed with Palermo and the other in Naples, from where the designation common and convenient of Royaume of Naples for what nominally remained the kingdom of Sicily, often indicated in the writings like “kingdom of Sicily in on this side Headlight” even like “kingdom of peninsular Sicily” or, more rarely, “Dry land kingdom”.

A first reunification intervenes in 1442 under title of Royaume of Deux-Siciles, but as of 1458, the kingdom of Naples is given to bastard Couronne of Aragon, but ends up returning in 1504 in the clean fields of kings d' Aragon. Those and their successors kings d' Espagne then carried the title of “king de Sicile on the two sides of the strait”.

Among the remote consequences of the War of succession of Spain appears the foundation of new a Royaume of Deux-Siciles, allotted in 1734 to a junior by the Bourbons of Spain, wire of king d' Espagne and of Elisabetta Farnese, it will divide for always the crown of Spain and that of Naples. But, except the Napoleonean interlude, it will be the end of any nonItalian domination on the Campania. The area will be attached to the new kingdom of Italy in 1861, with the remainder of the kingdom of Deux-Siciles.

Places of history

Antiquity greco-Roman:

  • archaeological Park of Cumes (Second colony of the Large Greece)

  • archaeological Park of Paestum (3 Greek temples among best preserved at the world)
  • Towns of Pompéi and Herculanum buried at the time of the eruption of the Vesuvius (79 after JC)
Others
  • Château of Caserte builds at the XVIIIe century within Luigi Vanvitelli, architect.

Administration

The Campania is divided into 5 provinces:

Complement: the Bell-tower

The Campanie was famous in the first centuries of the Christian era for its metallurgical activities and in particular the manufacture of Cloche S and sonnailles intended for the herds or the public activities like the assemblies or the sales by auction. The first monasteries will take again this use to inform the monks of the various prayers and the use of the bells will join the religious offices gradually. The churches will comprise little by little Clocher S or Campanile S separated for the installation from increasingly large bells.

External bonds

  • Official site of the '' Regione Campania ''

  • Blazon of the area of the Campania
  • Turn of the sites and the towns of Campania

Simple: Campania

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