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Casabona
Sign in to saveCasabona (Calabrian: ) is a comune and town with a population of about 4,000 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, southern Italy.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Casabona
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Casabona
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Casabona, Calabria, Italy. - panoramio (1).jpg
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Casabona-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.region
- Calabria
- Italian comune.province
- Crotone (KR)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Zinga
- Italian comune.mayor
- Francesco Seminario
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 68
- Italian comune.population_total
- 3998
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- December 31, 2004
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Casabonesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 304
- Italian comune.saint
- San Nicola
- Italian comune.day
- December 6
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 88822
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0962
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- comune of Italy
- Official name
- Casabona
- Demonym
- casabonesi
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Province of Crotone
- Population
- 2312
- Area
- 67.67
- Elevation
- 304
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Verzino
- Official website
- www.comune.casabona.kr.it
- Image
- Casabona, Calabria, Italy. - panoramio (1).jpg
- Dialing code
- 0962
- Licence plate code
- KR
- Patron saint
- Saint Nicholas
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- postal code
- 88822
- Commons category
- Casabona
- P11012
- Angela Mao
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Zinga
- Notes
Casabona (Calabrian: ) is a comune and town with a population of about 4,000 people in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, southern Italy.
==History== Legends surrounding Casabona, or what would later become Casabona, date to antiquity. According to Strabo, the mythical king Philoctetes established several cities in Italy, including Petilia, Old Crimissa and a settlement called Chone. This Chone, part of Magna Graecia, is thought to have been ancient Casabona.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Casabona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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