Napolitania

The term Napolitania is the ultimate development of the substantivation of the adjective Napoletano (or Napolitano, according to the more ancient spelling of the term). The substantivation of Napoletano is widely used in literature prior to the 20th century as historical-geographical term to refer to the neapolitan provinces, as they were still called for long time after the political unification of the peninsula on the 17th of March 1861. The term Napolitania develops at early 20th century as expedient to quickly refer to the land historically inhabited by the Neapolitan people, now that the term Napoli was increasingly getting associated with the city only, unlike in the past. Some of the references already cited in the Napolitania page demonstrates that it has been used by foreign authors exactly to indicate that land. At the best of my knowledge, the first appearance of the term Napolitania dates back to 1911, Società Africana d'Italia Anno XIX, fasc. IX-X, XI-XII, 1911 e Anno XXXI, fasc. V-VI. Going back to my initial point, Napolitania is the ultimate development of the substantivation of the adjective Napoletano, which was used in a geographic meaning too. It is composed of Napoli, the Italian name of the city Naples, and the suffix -tania, developed during the Roman times, and which stands for "land", "country". Napolitania is then the land or country of of Neapolitans. Neapolitans is indeed the historical name of the people who lived in the Kingdom of Naples (and in the continental part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1816 to 1861) and the appellation survived long after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Napolitania is then just a linguistic expedient to refer to the country of Naples, which is an entity officially existed from 1285 and 1815 and officially recognised within the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1816 to 1860. The same linguistic development has occurred throughout history to name other lands/nations, like Occitania, Mauritania, Aquitania, etc. The geographical use of the term Napolitania develops pretty much at the same time with the other geographical terms, like Padania and Appenninia. The asteroid 1876 Napolitania is named after Naples, by following the same pattern. The historical geographical definition for Napolitania coincedes withe the territories that between 1285 and 1815 were part of the Kingdom of Naples including the ancient papal enclaves of Benevento and Pontecorvo. In the historical definition of Napolitania the administrative divisions of the ancient Kingdom of Naples were, from south to north, the following: Calabria Ultra, Calabria Citra, Terra d'Otranto, Basilicata, Terra di Bari, Principato Citra, Principato Ultra, Province of Naples, Capitanata, Contado di Molise, Terra di Lavoro, Abruzzo Citra, Abruzzo Ultra I and Abruzzo Ultra II. Napolitania has also a modern definition according to some southern Italy autonomist movements,^[4] which define Napolitania as an autonomous macro-region in an eventually federal Italy. In this definition Napolitania will be composed of existing Italian regions that will be merged to a macro-region, following regions will compose Napolitania: Calabria, Basilicata, Apulia, Campania, Molise, Abruzzo, far eastern part and southern part of Lazio (included in the provinces of Latina, Frosinone and Rieti.^[5] Indipendentists see Napolitania as the motherland of Neapolitans.

Contents 1 Geographical features 2 Natural Resources 3 Politics 4 Languages 5 References 6 External links

Geographical features

Area: 76,991 km²
Religions: Roman Catholic
Population: 14,554,112 inhabitants
Coastline: 2,259 km

Most populous cities:

Name	People
Naples	962,447
Bari	320,160
Reggio Calabria	260,000
Taranto	200,000
Foggia	153,469
Salerno	140,045
Pescara	124,130
Giugliano in Campania	114,036

Major rivers:

Name	Length
Volturno	175 km
Liri-Garigliano	158 km
Aterno-Pescara	145 km
Ofanto	134 km

Lakes:

• Varano
• Lesina
• Conza
• Occhito
• Guardalfiera
• Bomba
• San Giuliano
• Serra del Corvo
• Capaciotti

Mountain ranges:

• Abruzzi Apennines
• Neapolitan Apennines
• Lucano Apennines
• Calabrian Apennines

Highest mountains:

Name	Height
Gran Sasso	2,914 m (9,560 ft)
La Maiella	2,795 m (9,170 ft)
Serra Dolcedorme	2,267 m (7,438 ft)
Mount Miletto	2,050 m (6,730 ft)
Montalto	1,955 m (6,414 ft)
Cervati	1,898 m (6,227 ft)

Active volcanoes: Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei (near Naples)
Extinct volcanoes: Vulture (Basilicata)

National parks:

Name	Hectares
Abruzzo	50,683
Aspromonte	76,000
Cilento and Vallo di Diano	181,048
Gargano	121,118
Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga	150,000
Majella	74,095
Pollino	182,180
Sila	73,695
Vesuvius	8,482

Regional parks:

Name	Hectares
Matese	33.326
Partenio	14.870
Roccamonfina e Foce Garigliano	11.000
Monti Lattari	16.000
Fiume Sarno	3.436
Monti Picentini	62.200
Parco del Sirente - Velino	50.288
Lama Balice	502
Dune costiere da Torre Canne a Torre San Leonardo	1.069
Salina di Punta della Contessa	1.697
Bosco Incoronata	1.060
Bosco e paludi di Rauccio	1.593
Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase	3.227
Litorale di Punta Pizzo e Isola di Sant'Andrea	685
Porto Selvaggio e Palude del Capitano	1.120
Litorale di Ugento	1.600
Terra delle Gravine	19.775
Chiese rupestri del Materano (Murgia Materana)	10.856
Gallipoli Cognato e Piccole Dolomiti Lucane	27.027
Parco Naturale delle Serre	----

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Languages

See also: Neapolitan language

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References

1. ↑ The economic history of modern Italy
2. ↑ La Corte di Lucifer
3. ↑ Cómo se organiza una biblioteca
4. ↑ Statuto Speciale per il territorio della Napolitania