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31 unusual facts about Salerno


Alfonso Maria Fusco

Don Alfonso Maria Fusco was born to Aniello Fusco, a farmer and his wife Giuseppina Schianova, at Angri, Salerno, Italy, March 23, 1839.

Ángel González Muñiz

He is also the recipient of the Angel María de Lera Hispanism Prize for his contributions to Hispanic Culture from the University of Colorado (U.S.), the Príncipe de Asturias Prize (Spain), the Salerno Poetry Prize (Italy) and the Premio Reina Sofía Iberoamericas Prize (Spain).

Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott

He joined up in August 1943, and on 11 September that year led a platoon in an attack on a tobacco factory in Salerno.

Babù

He made a total of 27 appearances in 2 seasons, scoring 3 goals for the Salerno based club.

Buffalo mozzarella

In Italy, the cheese is produced in almost all nation using Italian buffalo's milk and type with official name by Government Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP is produced in areas ranging from Rome in Lazio to Paestum near Salerno in Campania, and there are production areas in province of Foggia, Puglia and in Venafro, Molise.

Cilentan dialect

In the towns of northern Cilento close to the urban area of Salerno (for example Agropoli, Capaccio and Paestum) the language is mainly influenced by Neapolitan, more specifically by the Salernitan dialect.

The Cilentan language (in Italian: Cilentano, in Cilentan: Celendano or Cilindanu) is a dialect spoken in the area of Cilento, located in the southern part of the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy.

Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park

Situated in the Province of Salerno (Campania), it includes great part of the geographical regions of Cilento and Vallo di Diano.

Cyril Alington

Their eldest daughter, Kathleen, died at the age of thirty and their youngest son Patrick Alington, was killed during World War II at Salerno in 1943.

Dejan Bogdanović

Since living in Italy he has divided his time between his concert activities, playing in the great halls of Italy and Europe, and teaching; In fact he has held numerous courses in Bolzano, Siracusa, Padova, Portogruaro, Trieste, Salerno, Pesaro, Chioggia, Bergamo and his pupils are the prize winners of many important violin and orchestral manifestations and competitions.

Ernest J. Dawley

The VI Corps took part in the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno on September 9, 1943, with the British X Corps under Fifth Army as part of Operation Avalanche.

Joe Worrall

Worrall was the referee for the 1992 European Championships qualifier between Italy and Hungary at the Stadio Arechi, Salerno, on 1 May 1991.

Keppel Craven

Having received a considerable addition to his fortune, he in 1834 purchased a large convent in the mountains near Salerno, which he fitted up as a residence, and there received his visitors with much hospitality.

Milano Rogoredo railway station

In 2011, the Eurostar Italia-rival Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori started a high-speed-service running from Torino Porta Susa to Salerno, stopping at Rogoredo as well as at the Porta Garibaldi station.

Mucciolo

Somewhere between 1600 and 1750 a branch of the Mucciolo settled in Castel San Lorenzo, located in Salerno just outside of Naples, where over 70 families of the Mucciolo line are known to live today.

Pope Leo IX

In the same year he presided over provincial synods at Salerno, Siponto and Vercelli, and in September revisited his native Germany, returning to Rome in time for a third Easter synod, at which the question of the reordination of those who had been ordained by simonists was considered.

Potenza Centrale railway station

The station was opened on 1 September 1880, upon the inauguration of the Picerno–Potenza section of the Battipaglia–Potenza–Metaponto railway, a line linking it directly with Salerno and Taranto.

The more common regional trains link Potenza with closer destinations, including Salerno, Naples, Melfi, Foggia and Taranto.

RAF Hardwick

After the detachment returned to England in August 1943, the group flew only two missions before the detachment was sent back to the Mediterranean to support the Fifth Army at Salerno during the invasion of Italy in September 1943.

Raïs M'Bolhi

In June 2004 he received his first and only call-up to France U18 national team for the tournament in Salerno.

Rice-A-Roni

A successful businessman, he married Maria Ferrigno from Salerno, Italy.

Robert MacDonald Ford

He served in the United States Navy during World War II on minesweepers in Iceland and at the landing at Salerno.

Royal Naval Commandos

Landing at Salerno and Anzio, they undertook tasks including clearing mines from the beaches.

Snina

The town's rulers from 1321 to 1684 were from the Drugeth family, who came from Salerno near Naples.

The Spirit of Islam

"From the schools of Salerno, of Baghdad, of Damascus, of Grenada, of Cordova, of Malaga, the Moslems taught the world the gentle lessons of philosophy and the practical teaching of stern science"

Toni Jiménez

Jiménez gained three additional caps for the full squad during one year, his first one being offered by Camacho, a friendly with Italy on 18 November 1998 (2–2, in Salerno).

University of Salerno

Previously, the town of Velia, a little south of Salerno, had a medical College with a school of medicine, which was established in Greek and Roman times.

Salerno, a city in which, as Michelet said, “emperors, kings, popes, and the richest barons all had their own doctor”, developed during the Middle Ages around its prestigious School of Medicine.

The Salerno Medical School reached the height of its glory between the 10th and 13th centuries, especially due to the contribution of Alphanus of Salerno and Constantine the African, who deemed Salerno worthy of the name of “City of Hippocrates” (Hippocratica Civitas), after the well-known Greek physician and mathematician.

The barbarian invasions following the fall of the Roman Empire caused the last doctors from Velia to move to the neighbouring city of Salerno.

William H. Turner, Jr.

At the age of 26, Turner went into business on his own as a trainer and found early success with the Thoroughbred racehorse Salerno, who won the Remsen Stakes in 1967.


2002 Molise earthquake

It lasted for 60 seconds and could be felt distinctly in the centre of Molise, in the Capitanata, the Province of Chieti, and could be perceived in the Marche, Bari, Benevento, Matera, Brindisi, Rome, Naples, Potenza, Salerno, Taranto and Pescara.

Agostino Falivene

Agostino Falivene born from Giffoni in the province of Salerno, of the Order of the Servants of Maria, was Roman Catholic bishop of the island of Capri from the 25 September 1528 to the 24 April 1534 in that Pope Paul III transfers it to the island of Ischia where he died in 1548.

Al Salerno

On September 16, 1968, Salerno received a call from American League president Joe Cronin, informing Salerno that he and his crew chief Bill Valentine were being fired, effective immediately.

Amatus of Montecassino

Amatus describes the Norman sieges of Bari and Salerno, the conquest of Sicily, and the career of Robert Guiscard, as well as the Gregorian Reforms seen from the papal point-of-view, interspersed with reports of miracles and prophecies.

Byzantine medicine

It is already known, for example, that a late twelfth century Italian physician at Salerno (Roger of Salerno), was influenced by the treatises of the Byzantine doctors Aetius and Alexander of Tralles as well as Paul of Aegina.

Calore

Calore Lucano, an Italian river of the province of Salerno (Campania)

Contship Containerlines

In the 90s, the pace quickened even more with new vessels for the Eagle service, a revision of the Costa operation and start of the Salerno Terminal operations.

Cuccaro

Cuccaro Vetere, Italian municipality of the province of Salerno

Dinner Set Gang

Salerno and Latella married twin sisters Gloria and Sandra Savino who were from a family with Mafia connections.

E. A. Mario

The future E. A. Mario was born to a family of modest means in the Vicaria quarter of Pellezzano, Salerno.

Faiano

Nearest motorway exits are "Pontecagnano" and "Montecorvino Pugliano" on the A3 Motorway Naples-Salerno-Cosenza-Reggio Calabria.

Forward Operating Base Salerno

Located in the southeastern province of Khost, Afghanistan, near the city of Khost, FOB Salerno was nicknamed "Rocket City" for the numerous rocket and mortar indirect fire attacks targeting the base over the ten years that US forces occupied to post.

Hugo of Moncada

Hugo de Moncada a.k.a. Ugo de Moncada, (Chiva, Valencia, circa 1476 - Gulf of Salerno, May 28, 1528), was a Spanish political and military leader of the late 15th and early 16th century.

Jerry Calà

In the early 70's Calà co-founded together with Umberto Smaila, Franco Oppini and Ninì Salerno a cabaret-ensemble, "i gatti di Vicolo Miracoli".

Joe C. Davis, Jr.

During the Second World War, he joined the United States Navy and served as a Lieutenant, participating in the invasions of Sicily, Salerno and Normandy.

Julius Pomponius Laetus

Laetus was born at Teggiano, near Salerno, the illegitimate scion of the princely house of Sanseverino, the German historian Ludwig von Pastor reported.

Laureana

Laureana Cilento, Italian municipality of the province of Salerno

Lustra

Lustra, a commune in the province of Salerno (Campania, Italy).

M294

the fiscal code for Bellizzi, a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy

Peter Daubeny

Losing his left-arm at Salerno in 1943 led to him abandoning an acting career and staging his own productions including Franz Werfel's Jacobowsky and the Colonel in 1945.

R. Ross Holloway

The radiocarbon dates from his excavations led to a shift of almost five centuries in Early Bronze Age chronology in this area, while the study of the Early Bronze Age blades from Buccino (Salerno) was one of the first to document the use of arsenic as a hardening agent in early bronze metallurgy.

Ricos y Famosos

Natalia Oreiro as Valeria García Méndez de Salerno - Main heroine

Salerno Lake

Originally named Devil's Lake, the name was changed to Salerno after the Italian city of that name after the Salerno landings during 1943, in respect of which the Canadian Army played a prominent role.

Salerno railway station

In addition it is served by regional trains operating over the old Salerno–Nocera Inferiore via Cava de' Tirreni line, which was part of the Naples–Salerno line before the construction of the Santa Lucia tunnel.

San Mango

San Mango Piemonte, a municipality of the Province of Salerno, Campania

Teggiano

In Norman times, the Sanseverino family, counts of Marsico and later princes of Salerno, took over the fief of Diano which was composed of the hamlets of Sassano, Monte San Giacomo, San Rufo, San Pietro al Tanagro and Sant'Arsenio.

The Little French Lawyer

The plot of the play is based on a story by Massuccio di Salerno (his Il novellino, novella xli), perhaps in the version in Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán (1599, 1605).

Umberto Smaila

Born in Verona, in the early 70's Smaila co-founded together with Jerry Calà, Franco Oppini and Ninì Salerno a cabaret-ensemble, "i gatti di Vicolo Miracoli".

USS LST-389

Finally departing Salerno on 11 September, LST-389 sailed to Milazzo, Sicily to await orders which came soon and took her back to Salerno with elements of the famed British 8th Army embarked.

Valentina Nappi

Born in Scafati, Salerno, Nappi made her debut in the adult industry in 2011 with director Rocco Siffredi after she contacted him via e-mail.