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      • Province of Naples former province in Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Province of Naples (Italian: Provincia di Napoli, Napulitano: Pruvincia 'e Nàpule) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. Its capital city is Naples, within the province there are 92 Comuni of the Province of Naples.
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  2. The province of Naples (Italian: provincia di Napoli; Neapolitan: pruvincia 'e Nàpule) was a province in the Campania region of Italy. In 2014/2015, the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990 and Law 56/2014), replaced the province of Naples with the Metropolitan City of Naples .

    • Origins
    • Greek and Roman Era
    • The Duchy of Naples
    • Normans, Hohenstaufen, and Anjou
    • The Aragonese Period
    • Bibliography

    The earliest traces of human habitation date back to the Middle Neolithic period, as evidenced by traces of the Serra d'Alto culture found near the Santa Maria degli Angeli a Pizzofalcone basilica. Traces dating back to the Chalcolithic and Early/Middle Bronze Agewere also found in the same area. The Gaudo culture can be observed in the Eneolithict...

    Parthenope

    The city of Parthenope was founded by Cumae, the earliest Greek city on mainland Italy, at the end of the 8th century BC. Parthenope was named after the siren in Greek mythology, said to have washed ashore at Megaride, having thrown herself into the sea after she failed to bewitch Ulysseswith her song. The settlement was built on the Pizzofalcone promontory allowing control of sea traffic in the area. Little archaeology for Parthenope has come to light, but a necropolis of the 7th century BC...

    The refoundation as Neapolis

    Neapolis (New City) was founded by the Cumaen aristocracy expelled by the tyrant Aristodemus after the victory of Ariciain 507 BC. The oligarchs decided to establish Neapolis as a "second Cumae", similar to the city from which they came; for example, the continuation of cults such as that of Demeter and the faithful resumption of the organisation in phreniasconfirm this. This chronology is confirmed by archaeological finds. The original center of Parthenope on the Pizzofalcone hill was simply...

    Athenian and Syracusan influence

    Neapolis was soon able to replace Cumae in maritime trade and to take control of the stretch of sea from the Cumaean gulf to the Neapolitan gulf. Its commercial success was made possible thanks to the decline of the tyranny of the Deinomenids in Syracuse (466 BC) and the abandonment of Pithecusae (Ischia) by the Syracusan garrison, due to a violent earthquake (or more likely a volcanic eruption of Mount Epomeo). The immediate occupation of Ischia by Neapolis indicates the tensions between the...

    At the time of the Lombard invasion, Naples had a population of about 30,000-35,000. In 615, under Giovanni Consino, Naples rebelled for the first time against the Exarch of Ravenna, the emperor's plenipotentiary in Italy. In reply, the first form of duchy was created in 638 by the Exarch Isaac or Eleutherius (exarchic chronology is uncertain), but...

    After a period of Norman rule, in 1189 the Kingdom of Sicily was in a succession dispute between Tancred, King of Sicily of an illegitimate birth and the Hohenstaufens, a German royal house, as its Prince Henry had married Princess Constance the last legitimate heir to the Sicilian throne. In 1191 Henry invaded Sicily after being crowned as Henry V...

    In 1442 Alfonso I conquered Naples after his victory against the last Angevin king, Rene, and made his triumphal entry into the city in February 1443. The new dynasty enhanced commerce by connecting Naples to the Iberian peninsula and made Naples a centre of the Italian Renaissance: artists who worked in Naples in this period include Francesco Laur...

    Magnusson, Magnus; Goring, Rosemary, eds. (1990). Cambridge Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-39518-6.

  3. Naples is a southern Italian city with a port. It faces the Mediterranean Sea and is near Mount Vesuvius. Its name in Italian is Napoli which came from its Greek name Neapolis, meaning new city. It has a population of about 1 million. About 3 million live in the area around Naples (including Naples itself).

  4. There are 110 provinces in Italy. [1] . Each province is headed by a President assisted by a representative body, the Provincial Council, and an executive body, the Provincial Executive. The three main jobs of a province are: Local planning and zoning. Provision of local police and fire services.

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    SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Naples ( / ˈneɪpəlz / NAY-pəlz; Italian: Napoli [ ˈnaːpoli] ⓘ; Neapolitan: Napule [ ˈnɑːpulə]) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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