Calabria
Southern Italian region with Greek roots and linguistic diversity.
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Calabria is a region in Southern Italy that forms a peninsula bordered by the Basilicata region, the Ionian Sea, the Strait of Messina, and the Tyrrhenian Sea.[1] The region's climate is influenced by the sea and mountains, with Mediterranean conditions on the coasts and mountainous climate in higher areas.[2] Catanzaro serves as the capital of Calabria, a region whose total area measures 15221.90 km² and whose population numbers 1,827,571.[1]
Geography and history
La Sila is a mountainous plateau about 1200 m above sea level stretching nearly 2000 km² along central Calabria, with its highest point Botte Donato reaching 1928 m.[3][4] Calabria is commonly considered part of the "Calabrian Arc," an arc-shaped geographic domain extending from southern Basilicata to northeast Sicily.[5] Ancient Greeks settled in this land starting from the 8th century BCE and established the first cities as colonies.[6] Within La Sila, numerous lakes and dense coniferous forests are found, and the "Giants of the Sila" trees, which can attain heights of up to 40 m, are among Italy's tallest.[4]
In the Calabrian area, basement rocks from the Paleozoic era and later periods are present, with Neogene sediments covering them.[5] The Adriatic coast of the Salento peninsula was the initial location to which the name Calabria was applied, starting in the third century BCE.[7]
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The Calabrian Pine (pinus laricio poiret) is so prolific in this area that it lends an almost Northern appearance unseen elsewhere in the Italian Apennines.[8] An ancient 18th century spinning mill at the entrance of the reserve has been transformed into a taverna serving traditional regional dishes.[8]
References
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Resident population", ISTAT; "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011", ISTAT (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Calabria climate: when to go to Calabria – Italy: travel, recipes, family and health", 17 March 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Journeys"; "The Calabria National Park, sila Grande and Sila Piccola", www.madeinsouthitalytoday.com; "attivita_montagna – Costa Tiziana" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The giants of the sila"; "The Giants of the Sila: memories and history of a biogenetic reserve – I Giganti della Sila"; "The Forest of Giants", www.ItalyTraveller.com; Rai, "Water, woodland, silence: the Sila Park" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: van Dijk, J.P., Bello, M., Brancaleoni, G.P., Cantarella, G., Costa, V., Frixa, A., Golfetto, F., Merlini, S., Riva, M., Toricelli, S., Toscano, C., and Zerilli (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Guillotining, M., History of Earliest Italy, trans. Ryle, M & Soper, K. in Jerome Lectures, Diciassettesima serie, p.50 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Calabria" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Italic People of Ancient Apulia: New Evidence from Pottery for Workshops, Markets, and Customs", Cambridge University Press, 2014, p. 38–39 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "The Forest of Giants", www.ItalyTraveller.com. facts only, no text reused. italytraveller.com
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