San Marzano di San Giuseppe ( aae, Shën Marcani) is a town and '' comune'' in the

Province of Taranto The province of Taranto ( it, provincia di Taranto; Tarantino: ; Salentino: ), previously known as the province of the Ionian, is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Taranto. It has an area of , and a total popul ...

, in the Italian region of

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. Alongside

Casalvecchio di Puglia Casalvecchio ( aae, Kazallveqi) is an Arbëreshë ''comune'' and village in the Province of Foggia, Apulia, southern Italy. Mostly originating from a 15th-century migration of Albanians, the residents have subsisted by family farming. Of those na ...

and

Chieuti Chieuti ( aae, Qefti) is an Arbëreshë town and ''comune'' in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Euro ...

, it is one of the

Arbëreshë Arbën/Arbër, from which derived Arbënesh/Arbëresh originally meant all Albanians, until the 18th century. Today it is used for different groups of Albanian origin, including: * Arbër (given name), an Albanian masculine given name * Arbëresh ...

communities still existing in Apulia. Economy is based on the cultivation of olive trees and vine.

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