Ancient Campania
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Ager Campanus
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Ancient Campania (often also identified as Campania Felix or ager Campanus) originally indicated the territory of the ancient city of
Roman period
, and later also the plains of the various neighbouring municipalities. It was a very large territory when compared with the other Italic cities of the Roman and pre-Roman period.
It extended from the slopes of
Vesuvian area to the south. Initially it also included the ager Falernus, then it was heavily downsized by Rome due to the alliance of the city of Capua with Hannibal
.
The main inhabited centers of this historical region were (from north to south)
Nuceria Alfaterna and Salernum. Thanks to the fertility of the soil, also due to the presence of the Volturno river, it earned the name of Campania Felix.[1]
Classical age
According to the Roman philologist
Apennines and the sea, had the Sele river as its boundaries to the south and the Garigliano to the north (according to Pliny the Elder, however, the city of Sinuessa). The territory of Campania, together with Latium, became part, in the Augustan subdivision, of the Regio I: Latium et Campania
.
Middle Ages
In the
seventh century, due to the prevalence of the Duchy of Naples, the connection between the Latin toponym Campania and what it originally indicated was lost in the language: in an emblematic way, the geographical maps, from about 1500 to 1700, show the indication Terra Laboris olim Campania felix.[5]
Bibliography
- Gennaro Franciosi, La storia dell'Ager Campanus, i problemi della limitatio e sua lettura attuale (Real sito di S. Leucio 8-9 June 2001), ISBN 88-243-1450-3.
References
- ^ "Perché Campania Felix: le origini del nome | Visititaly.eu". visititaly.eu (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-02-25.
- ^ Sextus Pompeius Festus, De verborum significatione. Parte I, p. 109. Budapest, 1889.
- ^ ISBN 978-88-7188-774-6.
- ^ Aniello Gentile, Da Leboriae (Terrae) a Terra di Lavoro, riflessi linguistici di storia, cultura e civiltà in Campania, in Archivio storico di Terra di Lavoro, VI volume, 1978-1979, pp. 9-61.
- ISSN 1720-4321.
External links
- Approfondimento sull'archeologia vesuviana e campana, on vesuviolive.it.
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