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Salento is a cultural and geographic region located at the southern tip of Apulia in Italy, often called the "heel" of the Italian peninsula's boot shape. It spans across parts of three provinces and is notable for its distinct historical and cultural identity within southern Italy.
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In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 328 inbound references to Salento, and connects out to Saracen, Griko and Salentino.
The entry is geolocated on the map in 23, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Adriatic Sea, Landforms of Apulia and Peninsulas of Italy.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Salento
- Settlement.settlement_type
- historical and geographic region
- Settlement.image_skyline
- The heel of the boot of Italy.jpeg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view of Salento from satellite
- Settlement.image_map
- Salentomap.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Geographical borders of Salento (the so called "messapic threshold")
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Regions
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Apulia
- Settlement.flag_border
- yes
- Settlement.native_name
- Salentu
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Provinces
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Taranto, Brindisi, Lecce
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +1
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +2
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal codes
- Settlement.postal_code
- 73001-73100, 72012-72015, 72017-72018, 72020-72027, 72029, 74100
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 5856.57
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Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Salento
- topic's main category
- Category:Salento
- different from
- Salento
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On the map
3 mapped locations