 View from neighboring Castelnuovo della Daunia Casalvecchio (Kazallveqi) is a small Italian comune in the southeastern region of Italy. It is located in the province of Foggia in the Puglia region. The current mayor, Michele Boccamazzo, runs a community of 2,167 people[1]. Mostly from a 15th century Albanian migration, the residents have subsisted on family-run farming. Of those native to the area for generations, many have continued use of the Arbereshe dialect even those of the post-World War 2 generation. In Italy, the 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 or municipality. ...
Region Apulia Mayor Orazio Ciliberti Area 116 km² Population - City (2004) - Density 146. ...
Apulia is a region of Italy (called Puglia in Italian), bordering on Molise to the north-west, Campania to the south-west, Basilicata to the south, the Adriatic Sea to the east and the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ...
Arbëreshë are Albanian people living in southern Italy. ...
Founding
In 1461 near Monte Gargano in the southeastern Apennine mountains a group of 5000 immigrants from Albania fled the enculturation of the Turks and Islam. They were sent by Gjergj Kastrioti i Krujës, also known as George Castriota Skanderbeg. The area around Puglia was granted to the incomers by the king of Naples[2]. Monte Gargano in Apulia, Italy, is the site of the oldest shrine in Western Europe dedicated to the archangel Michael, the militant Christian transformation of Mithras. ...
The Apennine Mountains (Greek: Απεννινος; Latin: Appenninus--in both cases used in the singular; Italian: Appennini) is a mountain range stretching 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, traversing the entire peninsula, and forming, as it were, the backbone of the country. ...
Scanderbeg and the people, sculpture by Janaq Paço and Genc Hajdari in the National Museum, Kruje, Albania George Kastrioti (Gjergj Kastrioti) (1405 - January 17, 1468), better known as Skanderbeg, is the most prominent figure in the history of Albania. ...
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June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 187 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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