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 ...
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Metropolitan City of Naples
The Metropolitan City of Naples ( it, Città metropolitana di Napoli) is an Italian metropolitan city in Campania region, established on 1 January 2015. Its capital city is Naples; within the city there are 92 comunes (municipalities).
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in the southern central
Italian
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Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
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Lettere borders the following municipalities:
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.
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Casola di Napoli
Casola di Napoli ( nap, Casola 'e Napule) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about southeast of Naples.
Casola di Napoli borders the municipalities of Gragnano and Lettere ...
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Corbara
Corbara is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.
Geography
The municipality borders with Angri, Lettere
Lettere is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in t ...
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Gragnano
Gragnano, a hill town located between a mountain crest and the Amalfi Coast, is a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in southern Italy's Campania region, located about southeast of Naples city.
Gragnano borders the fo ...
Sant'Antonio Abate
Sant'Antonio Abate ( nap, Sant'Antuono) is a ''commune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 30 km southeast of Naples.
Sant'Antonio Abate borders the following municipalities: A ...
Liternum
Liternum was an ancient town of Campania, southern central Italy, near "Patria lake", on the low sandy coast between Cumae and the mouth of the Volturnus. It was probably once dependent on Cumae. In 194 BC it became a Roman colony. Although Livy r ...
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From 987 it was the see of a bishopric, which was renamed
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano was a Roman Catholicism in Italy, Latin Catholic diocese located in the Comune, commune of Lettere in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the southern-central Italian region Campania. In 1818, it was me ...