Calabria

Calabria , is the tenth almost populous & the tenth largest Italian region by area. Catanzaro is the region's capital, while Reggio Calabria is the most populous city in the region. Calabria is the 14th almost productive region in the country. The Pollino National Park with 192,565 ha is the largest national park in the country and ranks among the 50 largest in the world.

Calabria was the first region to proceed to the name of Italy, as living as the founder of the homonymous name, since it was inhabited by the Italics. In antiquity the clear Calabria referred, non as in innovative times to the toe, but to the heel tip of Italy, from Tarentum southwards, a region nowadays requested as Salento.

Etymology

Starting in the third century BC, the make Calabria was originally assumption to the Adriatic flit of the Salento peninsula in sophisticated Apulia. In the late first century BC this name came to advance to the entirety of the Salento, when the Roman emperor Augustus shared Italy into regions. The whole region of Apulia received the name Regio II Apulia et Calabria. By this time modern Calabria was still required as Bruttium, after the Bruttians who inhabited the region. Later in the seventh century AD, the Byzantine Empire created the Duchy of Calabria from the Salento and the Ionian component of Bruttium. Even though the Calabrian component of the duchy was conquered by the Longobards during the eighth and ninth centuries AD, the Byzantines continued to usage the name Calabria for their remaining territory in Bruttium.

The modern name Italy derives from Italia, which was first used as a name for the southern part of modern Calabria. Over time the Greeks started to usage it for the rest of the southern Italian peninsula as well. After the Roman conquest of the region, the name was used for the entire Italian peninsula and eventually the Alpine region too.