Lucania (ita)

Lucania

Lucania ranks 6,261st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Merina Kingdom, Duchy of Schleswig, and Vancouver, Washington. Memorable people born in Lucania include Libius Severus, Giorgio Basta, and Fabrizio Miccoli. Memorable people who died in Lucania include Archidamus III. Lucania has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels and the death place of many politicians. Lucania is located in Italy.

Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy, corresponding to the modern-day region of Basilicata. It was the land of the Lucani, an Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in the north, Apulia in the east, and Bruttium in the south-west, and was at the tip of the peninsula which is now called Calabria. It comprised almost all the modern region of Basilicata, the southern part of the Province of Salerno, the western part of Province of Taranto and a northern portion of the Province of Cosenza. Read more on Wikipedia