Crotone (It. Provincia di Crotone) is a province in the Calabria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Crotone. In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Calabria, formerly Brutium, is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ... Croton or Crotona (present-day Crotone), in the toe of the Italian peninsula, was an Achaean colony from c. ...
It has an area of 1,717 sq km, and a total population of 173,122 (2001). There are 27 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link).
In 1996 it became the capital of the newly established Province of Crotone.
Croton was then occupied by the Bruttii, with the exception of the citadel, in which the chief inhabitants had taken refuge; these, being unable to defend the place against a Carthaginian force, soon after surrendered, and were allowed to withdraw to Locri.
Crotone's location between the ports of Taranto and Messina, as well as its proximity to a source of hydroelectric power, favored industrial development during the period between the two World Wars.
Crotone fell into the Arab's hands in 845 and then it was reconquered by the Byzantinen; in 1059 it was conquered by Roberto il Guiscardo.
After the Angevin coming, Crotone, which had remained faithful to Friederich II, fell into the hands of the Ruffo's feudal rule (1824) and, involved into the war against the Aragonese, it was sacked by Ruggero from Lauria in 1297.
Under the Angevins, with Caltabelotta's peace (1302), Crotone became the most crowded town in Calabria and thanks to its intense harbour activity, was an important commerce centre for numerous groups of foreign traders and housed the most important and powerful Jewish community in Calabria.
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