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Basilicata Region, Italy: position, history, features, genealogy research ... Basilicata is a small region, mostly mountainous, situated in Southern Italy and with two short coastlines on the Ionian and the Thyrrenian Sea, and divided into 2 Provinces: province of Matera (MT), Province of Potenza (PZ)
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Basilicata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The region is mountainous, arid, scarcely watered. It has two coastlines, one in the center of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea, and a tiny one on the Tyrrhenian Sea, ... The region is rich in archaeological relics, ... The Provincial Archaeological Museum of Potenza houses an important prehistoric collection,
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The region of Basilicata in Italy forms the instep of the Italian "boot." It is border by Campania, Calabria, and the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is not a large region; it is only 9,987 sq km. The capital of Basilicata is Potenza and Basilicata is divided into two provinces;
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The name Basilicata takes its name from the Latin Basileus, meaning land of kings. The poets however, have always called it something different - Lucania - a more musical sounding word, evoking the memory of the now vanished Lucania people, whose dialect has lived on in many Basilicatan villages.
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Information on the Basilicata region in Italy ... Welcome to Basilicata! ... Small and lowly populated, Basilicata lays between Campagna, Puglia, and Calabria at the upper heal of the Italian boot claiming a tiny bit coastland on the west and the Gulf of Taranto at its bottom edge. Most of the region's land is parched and...
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Basilicata Italy italien.com - travel guide for your holidays in Basilicata Italy Basilicata Italy, holidays, Italy holidays, spare time, sports and weather forecast with online-bookings for hotels in Basilicata Italy, apartments, All inclusive offers in Basilicata Italy and lastminute Basilicata Italy, all about ...
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Basilicata, a region bordering with Campania (West), with Puglia (North-East) and with Calabria (South), with a population of about 610.000 people scattered in one hundred and thirty towns, until 1950 had a type of life modeled on an archaic agricultural system, only in the last twenty years updated with well...
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