Brindisi or Brindes is a Italian city of approximately: 90000 inhabitants, chief town of the province of the same name in the Pouilles, the southernmost Italy.

History

It is an important city of the Adriatic Sea, famous since antiquity ( Brundisium ). Its port in branches of stag (from where its name Brunda, in Messapien = branches of stag; cf Albanian BIS " corne" , and DRE " cerf"), only really protected from the Adriatic coast, in made the door of the East as of the Roman epoch.

At the Greek origin, conquered by the Romans into 245 or 267 before JC and transform in Roman colony into 244, it was quickly connected to Rome by the Via Appia .

After the fall of the Roman Empire of Occident, it was taken by the Ostrogoths then passed towards 535 under the domination of Byzance until in 1070, with the arrival of the Normands.

An earthquake destroyed it in 1456.

The city remained under the domination of the Ottoman Empire between 1480-1481. It is a question of the only territory of Italy to be controlled by the Othomans. The sultan Mehmet II had planned to make the military base of a campaign of it on Rome in order to seize the papal seat. This project did not lead because of the sudden death of the sultan.

Loser of its economic importance after the Rebirth, it is now a seaside resort, a harbor center (fishing) and industrialist (chemistry, mechanics, energy). Its proximity with the Albania and the recrudescence of various traffics (Smuggling, Clandestine immigration…) in make a place particularly supervised by the Carabinieri.

Administration

Hamlets

Tuturano

Communes bordering

Carovigno, Cellino San Marco, Latiano, Mesagne, San Donaci, San Pietro Vernotico, San Vito dei Normanni

Note

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