Poggio Catino is a ''
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 ...
'' (municipality) in the
Province of Rieti
The Province of Rieti ( it, Provincia di Rieti) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti. Established in 1927, it has an area of with a total population of 157,887 people as of 2017. There are 73 '' comuni'' ...
in the
Italian
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** Italian language, a Romance language
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region
Latium
Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Definition
Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil ( Old Latium) on ...
, located about northeast of
Rome
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and about southwest of
Rieti
Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 47,700. It is the administrative seat of the province of Rieti and see of the diocese of Rieti, as well as the modern capital of the Sabin ...
. As of 31 December 2011, it had a population of 1,335 and an area of .
History
The village was created at the end of the 11th century, above the Moricone hill, to find a larger building space than that of the nearby village of Catino, founded in the 7th century, and nowadays a hamlet of it. The toponym itself describes the
topography
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Topography is a field of geoscience and planetary s ...
of the built-up area: a
hillock
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(''poggio'') above a
basin (''catino''). Anciently under the rule of
Farfa Abbey
Farfa Abbey ( it, Abbazia di Farfa) is a territorial abbey in northern Lazio, central Italy. In the Middle Ages it was one of the richest and most famous abbeys in Italy. It belongs to the Benedictine Order and is located about from Rome, in t ...
, it became part of the
Province of Perugia
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, after the
Italian unification
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(1861). Since 1927, with the creation of the Province of Rieti, Poggio Catino, as well as the rest of the new province, passed from the region of
Umbria
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to the one of Lazio.
Geography
Poggio Catino is a hilltown part of the historic region of
Sabina. The municipality borders with
Cantalupo in Sabina
Cantalupo in Sabina ( Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Rieti, on the Sabine Hills of Lazio. It is famous as the reputed origin of the muskmelon called a cantaloupe melon.
It is one of several Italian ''comuni'' named "Cantalup ...
,
Forano
Forano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about north of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,697 and an area of .All demographics and other ...
,
Poggio Mirteto
Poggio Mirteto is a ''comune'' (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in Sabina in the Central Italian region Lazio (Latium). Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geog ...
,
Roccantica
Roccantica is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti.
The Gothic
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and
Salisano
Salisano ( it, label= Sabino, Saricianu) is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti
Rieti (; lat, Reate, Sabino: ) is a town and ''comune'' in L ...
.
Its only hamlet (''
frazione
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''), is the nearby village of
Catino
Poggio Catino is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. As of 31 December 2011, it had a population of 1,335 and an area of .
History
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Demographics
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Personalities
*Gregory of Catino
Gregory of Catino (1060 – aft. 1130) was a monk of the Abbey of Farfa and "one of the most accomplished monastic historians of his age."Marios Costambeys, ''Power and Patronage in the Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics, and t ...
(1060–1130), Christian monk and historian
References
External links
Poggio Catino official website
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Cities and towns in Lazio