Salerno (ita)

Salerno

Salerno ranks 1,209th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Perth, Scotland, Hitchin, and Slough. Memorable people born in Salerno include Trota of Salerno, Nicola Abbagnano, and Renato Martino. Memorable people who died in Salerno include Pope Gregory VII, Hermann von Salza, and Roger Borsa. Salerno has been the birth place of many physicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Salerno is located in Italy.

Salerno is an ancient city and comune (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. In recent history the city hosted Victor Emmanuel III, the King of Italy, who moved from Rome in 1943 after Italy negotiated a peace with the Allies in World War II, making Salerno the capital of the "Government of the South" and therefore provisional government seat for six months. Some of the Allied landings during Operation Avalanche occurred near Salerno. Read more on Wikipedia