Motta Montecorvino (
Pugliese: ) is a town, ''
comune
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'' (municipality), former bishopric and present Latin Catholic
titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese". The ordinary or hierarch of such a see may be styled a "titular metropolitan" (highest rank), "titular archbish ...
in the
province of Foggia
The Province of Foggia ( it, Provincia di Foggia ; Foggiano: ) is a province in the Apulia (Puglia) region of southern Italy.
This province is also known as Daunia, after the Daunians, an Iapygian pre-Roman tribe living in Tavoliere plain, and ...
,
Apulia
it, Pugliese
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, southeast
Italy
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.
The city was losing its population in the early 15th century, and then an
earthquake
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on 5 December 1456 reduced it to rubble and ruins, apart from a
guard tower
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. Even its cathedral was destroyed.
[Maria Stella Calò Mariani, "I ''villages désertés'' della Capitanata. Fiorentino e Montecorvino", in ''Atti del 27º convegno sulla preistoria-protostoria-storia della Daunia'' (San Severo, 2007), pp. 56-57. See photograph of cathedral ruins on p. 82.]
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Apulia
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