Corbara is a town and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' in the

province of Salerno The Province of Salerno ( it, Provincia di Salerno) is a province in the Campania region of Italy. __TOC__ Geography The largest towns in the province are: Salerno, the capital, which has a population of 131,950; Cava de' Tirreni, Battipagli ...

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region of south-western

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The municipality borders with

Angri Angri is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno, Campania, southern Italy. It is around northwest of the town of Salerno. History The Byzantine general Narses defeated Teias, the last king of the Goths, nearby in AD 553. In the 1 ...

Lettere Lettere is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the southern central Italian region Campania, located about 30 km southeast of Naples. Lettere borders the following municipalities: Angri, Casola di Napoli, Corbara ...

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Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino (Campanian: ) s a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of southern Italy. The town is commonly known also in the abbreviated naming form of ''Sant'Egidio Montalbino''. Geography Locat ...

and Tramonti.

History

An area populated since Roman times, the first attestation of the Corbara village occurs in the 11th century, when the name Corvara appeared. Two religious buildings were built in the Middle Ages: the church of San Giuseppe, around which the village of Sala was formed, the historic center of Corbara, and the hermitage of Sant'Erasmo. The town of Corbara depended on Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino. The municipal entity of Corbara was born only at the end of the 16th century, when the bishop of Nocera granted the town an autonomous parish (the Church of San Bartolomeo, then of San Francesco) and thus the Universitas Corbariensis, part of the city of Nocera, was founded. de' Pagani. The current municipality was established in 1806.

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