Grecìa Salentina
Grecìa Salentina (Italian for Salentinian Greek-speaking land) is an area in the peninsula of Salento in southern Italy, near the town of Lecce which is inhabited by the Griko people, an ethnic Greek minority[1] in southern Italy who speak Griko, a variant of Greek.
Overview
The Union of the Towns of Grecìa Salentina (Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina) consists of eleven towns and forms part of the province of Lecce in the administrative area of Apulia (Puglia), and was founded by the Griko population in 1966. The purpose of this union was to promote the knowledge of Griko and preserve its culture, by organizing research at the university, teaching the language at schools and publishing books and poetry in the endangered dialect.[2]
The following towns are members of the Union: Calimera, Martano, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Melpignano, Soleto, Sternatia, Zollino, Martignano, Carpignano Salentino and Cutrofiano.[3] The towns of Carpignano Salentino and Cutrofiano joined the Union in 2007, though the inhabitants of these two towns have not spoken their original Greek dialect called griko for two centuries.
Demographics
- Calimera 7,351 inhabitants
- Carpignano Salentino 3,868 inhabitants
- Castrignano de' Greci 4,164 inhabitants
- Corigliano d'Otranto 5,762 inhabitants
- Cutrofiano 9,250 inhabitants
- Martano 9,588 inhabitants
- Martignano 1,784 inhabitants
- Melpignano 2,234 inhabitants
- Soleto 5,551 inhabitants
- Sternatia 2,583 inhabitants
- Zollino 2,143 inhabitants
Total: 54,278 inhabitants[4]
See also
References
External links
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Grecìa Salentina (Salentinian Greece)
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