Lucania
Lucania (Latin and Italian: Lucania ) is a historical region in southern Italy.
The landscape was named in the 3rd century BC after the Italic ( Oscan ) people of the Lucanians.
Name and location
Lucania was surrounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the west, the Gulf of Taranto to the east, the landscapes of Campania, Samnium and Apulia to the north and the landscape Bruttium, now Calabria, in the south.
The border with Campania ran along the river Sele (Latin: Silarus ) so that the majority of today's Campanian province of Salerno, in particular the landscape Cilento, was one of Lucania. North Eastwards handed Lucania to the river Bradanus.
The area thus coincides with the core of today's region of Basilicata.
As a regional designation was " Lucania " in the High Middle Ages, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, competition from " Basilicata ", the name of an administrative unit, from which the present-day region of Basilicata emerged.
Gallery
- Metaponto
- Dolomiti Lucane