Salento

Salento (; Salentino: Salentu; Salento Griko: ) is a cultural, historical, and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia, in southern Italy. It is a sub-peninsula of the Italian Peninsula, sometimes described as the "heel" of the Italian "boot". It encompasses the entire administrative area of the Province of Lecce, most of the Province of Brindisi (all of it except Fasano, Ostuni and Cisternino), and the south-eastern part of the Province of Taranto (like Grottaglie and Avetrana, but not Taranto itself).

thumb|Messapian pottery|Messapian ceramics in Archaeological Museum of Oria. The Messapians were an Iapygian tribe who inhabited Salento, a region in what is now southern Italy, in classical antiquity. Two other Iapygian tribes, the Peucetians and the Daunians, inhabited central and northern Apulia respectively. All three tribes spoke the Messapian language, but had developed separate archaeological cultures by the seventh century BC. The Messapians lived in the Messapia region, which extended from Leuca in the southeast to Kailia and Egnatia in the northwest, covering most of the Salento peni

extinct Indo-European language

Italian university

province of the Kingdom of Naples / Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Extreme Southern Italian dialect spoken in the Salento Peninsula, Italy