Aiello Calabro

Aiello Calabro is a commune of the southernmost Italy, in the the Mezzogiorno , located in the area of Calabria, in the province of Cosenza. This small city made up of 2.392 inhabitants (2001) is located at approximately 10 km littoral of the sea Tyrrhénienne.

History

Probably founded by the Greek at the time of the “Large Greece” before the Roman conquest , the origin and the history of Tyllesium (Latin name probable of the town of Aiello Calabro) remains rather obscure until the time of the Moyen-âge. Certainly plundered by the pirate buckwheats then placed under Byzantine control , it is necessary to wait the time of the conquests Normans in Italy of the South (11th century) to have the first documented mentioning the town of Aiello Calabro, named Ajello with the Middle Ages. In 1065, the city is besieged by Norman Robert Guiscard, duke of Apulie, Calabria and Sicily. The inhabitants of the city resist four months before subjecting themselves to the Norman yoke. However, like everywhere, the Norman ones start again nevertheless the commercial social life, and religious with Aiello Calabro, mined by one long period of disorders, especially which had with the invasions sarrasines and many the wars which ruined the south of Italy since the middle of the 9th century. The Norman ones also finance the rebuilding of the church of the city and in 1094, the diocese and attached to the town of Tropea at the instigation of the count of Sicily Roger de Hauteville, younger brother of “Guiscard”.

Administration

Hamlets

Communes bordering

Cleto, Grimaldi, Lago, Martirano, Martirano Lombardo, San Pietro in Amantea, Tightened of Aiello

Bonds

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