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Piaggine
View on WikipediaPiaggine, also called “Chiaine“ in the local dialect, is a town and comune in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, in the south-west of Italy.
Key Information
The town is located on the river Calore, 93 miles (150 km) south-east of Naples, 57 miles (92 km) north-west of Potenza.
According to the official data, the resident population in 2020 was 1231.[3]
Piaggine was originally inhabited around 1000 A.D by a community of nomadic shepherds, which found green pastures among the mountains near the river.[4]
The town is famous for being the birthplace of the notorious brigant Giuseppe Tardio.[5]
Twin towns
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". demo.istat.it. Archived from the original on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ "Comune di Piaggine > Vivere Piaggine > Cultura e Tradizioni > Le origini e la storia". www.comune.piaggine.sa.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ "Comune di Piaggine > Vivere Piaggine > Cultura e Tradizioni > Galleria di personaggi > Giuseppe Tardio". www.comune.piaggine.sa.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2020-08-07. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
External links
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