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Encyclopedia > Balvano
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Country: Italy
Region Basilicata
Province: Potenza
Location: 40°39′ N 15°31′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=40_39_N_15_31_E_region:IT).
Area: 41,74 km²
Population: 1,981 (2003 data istat.it (http://demo.istat.it/))
Population density: 49 ab./km²
Elevation: 425 metres (a.s.l.)
Postal code: 85050
Auto code:: PZ (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigle_automobilistiche_italiane)
Tel. prefix: 0971
ISTAT code: 017076008
Fiscal code: A604
Name of habitants: Balvanesi
Municipality Website: Comune di Balvano (http://www.comune.balvano.pz.it/)

Balvano is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It is bounded by the comuni of Baragiano, Bella, Muro Lucano, Picerno, Ricigliano (SA), Romagnano al Monte (SA), Vietri di Potenza. A country, a land, or a state, is a geographical area that connotes an independent political entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one anothers countrymen. ... Regions of Italy Provisions for at least some degree of regional autonomy were made in the 1948 constitution, which states the constitutions role is; recoginize, protect and promote local autonomy, that State level services have the greatest decentralization, and adapt the principles and laws establishing autonomy and decentralization. ... Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Puglia to the east, Calabria to the south, it has one short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ... In Italy, the Province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (regione). ... Potenza (It. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... Here are a list of postal codes in Italy: Lazio 00000-00999 00010 - San Gregorio da Sassola, SAN POLO DEI CAVALIERI, GALLICANO NEL LAZIO, POLI, SANTANGELO ROMANO, CASAPE, MARCELLINA, MONTEFLAVIO, MONTELIBRETTI, MONTORIO ROMANO, MORICONE 00012 - GUIDONIA MONTECELIO 00013 - MENTANA 00015 - MONTEROTONDO 00017 - NEROLA 00018 - PALOMBARA SABINA 00019 - TIVOLI 00020... Prior to 1994 and resuming in 1999, Italian automobile license plates bear an alphabetic code which tells in which region the automobile was registered. ... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT) is the Italian national statistical institute, roughly corresponding to the United States Census Bureau. ... In Italy, the commune (comune, plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township. ... Potenza (It. ... Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Puglia to the east, Calabria to the south, it has one short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...


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Balvano is a small town on the mainland southern Italy and is about 50 miles southeast of Naples.
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San Giuliano's tragedy was eerily similar to one which struck the town of Balvano, near Naples, during a 1980 quake which claimed 2,570 lives in the area, 80 miles southwest of San Giuliano.
In Balvano, 26 children were killed when part of the town's church collapsed.
The pastor and the constructor who did renovation work on the church were convicted, then acquitted on appeal of convictions for manslaughter.
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