Puglia Region

Puglia is an Italian region with ordinary statute of southern Italy with Bari as its capital.

It borders to the north-west with Molise, to the west with Campania and Basilicata and is bathed by the Adriatic Sea to the east and north and by the Ionian Sea to the south.

Until the first half of the twentieth century the equivalent toponym, declined in the plural, Puglie was used to describe the region, still present in the toponymy of the area in Tavoliere delle Puglie and, until 1931 in Bari delle Puglie, official name of the current capital. administrative. It includes the metropolitan city of Bari (capital) and the provinces of Foggia, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Taranto, Brindisi and Lecce.

Puglia is the easternmost region of Italy: the easternmost location is Punta Palascìa (Otranto), 72 kilometers from Capo Linguette, the northernmost tip of the Karaburun Peninsula in Albania and 80 kilometers from the island of Fanò.

The first state entity in Italy that took the name of Langobardia or Longobardia is located in the south of the peninsula and mainly included Puglia; it was a territory ruled by the Byzantines (thema) with Bari as its capital.

The Germanic term Langbardland is used only after the fall of the Regnum Langobardorum and only to indicate the Byzantine thema of southern Italy with the name of Longobardia or Langobardia, a place called Langbarðaland by the Germanic Varangian warriors who fought in those lands against Byzantines and Normans; in Sweden the Germanic peoples in memory of these Varangian warriors erected runestones called Runestones of Italy.

Map: Puglia Region

vCard Info:

Address: Lungomare N. Sauro 33, 70100
Bari (BA) Puglia
Latitude: 40.3522626
Longitude: 18.1726205
Site: http://www.regione.puglia.it/...

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Type: Region
Function: Public place
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Last update: 13/08/2021