Mignano Monte Lungo
Mignano Monte Lungo is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 3252 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Caserta in Campania. It is part of the Comunità Montana Monte Santa Croce. The community is located about 47.5 kilometers northwest of Caserta. Mignano Monte Lungo is immediately adjacent to the provinces of Frosinone ( Lazio ) and Isernia ( Molise ).
History
Originally a settlement area of the city Sidiciner here Cesennia was built, which was conquered 305 BC by the Romans. As of the end of the 8th century, the Lombards to take control of Mignano. 1139 is here terminated after a battle of Pope Innocent II to Roger II of Sicily the ending for almost ten years of war in the region, who took the coronation Roger II by the anti-pope Antiochus its beginning.
On 27 September 1943, came here to the battle of Montelungo between the Fifth Army of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Axis powers.
Traffic
Mignano Monte Lungo Train Station is on the railway line Roma - Cassino - Napoli. By the municipality shall also undertake the Autostrada A1 from Milan to Naples and the Strada Statale 6 Casilina from Rome to Pastorano.
Personalities
- Michelina De Cesare (1841-1868), Brigantessa ( robber ) a gang born in the district Caspoli, killed in the capital