Adelfia
Sign in to saveAdelfia (, meaning brothers; Barese: ) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. The town is south of central Bari, and is a combination of two smaller towns, Montrone and Canneto.
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- Italian comune.name
- Adelfia
- Italian comune.native_name
- Adélfie
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Adelfia
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- GiulianoTamborra2.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- View of Adelfia
- Italian comune.image_shield
- adelfia-Stemma.gif
- Italian comune.shield_size
- px
- Italian comune.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Italian comune.region
- Apulia
- Italian comune.metropolitan_city
- Bari (BA)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Canneto, Montrone
- Italian comune.mayor
- Giuseppe Cosola
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 154
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 33.81
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31-8-2022
- Italian comune.population_total
- 16471
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Adelfiesi
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Tryphon
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Adelfia (, meaning brothers; Barese: ) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. The town is south of central Bari, and is a combination of two smaller towns, Montrone and Canneto.
==History== The urban center includes two former villages that were separated for a long time. Canneto was founded by the Normans of Robert Guiscard between 1080 and 1090, on the place of an ancient center (probably to be identified with Celiae), documented from ceramics and more recent graves from the 4th century. Montrone was founded in 980 by Greek refugees. Both had been subdued to varied feudal lords until 1806 when feudalism was abolished under the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. The two villages were united in 1927 under the artificial name of Adelfia, from the Greek term adelphòs, meaning brotherhood.