Casacalenda

Casacalenda (Molisan dialect Casechelenne; Kalena) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about northeast of Campobasso.

Key facts

Italian comune.name: Casacalenda
Italian comune.official_name: Comune di Casacalenda
Italian comune.image_skyline: Casacalenda -zona centro storico.jpg
Italian comune.image_caption: View of Casacalenda
Italian comune.region: Molise
Italian comune.province: Campobasso (CB)
Italian comune.mayor: Sabrina Lallitto
Italian comune.area_total_km2: 67.28
Italian comune.population_total: 2054
Italian comune.population_as_of: 30 November 2017
Italian comune.population_demonym: Casacalendesi
Italian comune.elevation_m: 670

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Casacalenda (Molisan dialect Casechelenne; Kalena) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about northeast of Campobasso.

==History== The Greek historian Polybius mentions a battle in 217 BC between the Roman army, based in Kalene, and Hannibal, based in Gerione (now a hamlet of Casacalenda). The name might have been derived from the Latin Kalendae or Kalends, the first day of the month in the Roman calendar.