Soleto
Sign in to saveSoleto (Griko: ; Salentino: ; ) is a small Griko-speaking city located in the province of Lecce in Apulia, Italy. The town has a total population of 5,542 and is one of the nine towns of Grecìa Salentina where the Greek dialect Griko is spoken.
Key facts
- Italian comune.istat
- 075076
- Italian comune.name
- Soleto
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Soleto
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Soleto.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Plazza and town Church of Soleto
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Soleto-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.shield_alt
- Coat of arms
- Italian comune.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Italian comune.province
- (LE)
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 29
- Italian comune.population_total
- 5523
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 November 2014
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Soletani
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 91
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Anthony of Padua
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 73010
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0836
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Soleto (Griko: ; Salentino: ; ) is a small Griko-speaking city located in the province of Lecce in Apulia, Italy. The town has a total population of 5,542 and is one of the nine towns of Grecìa Salentina where the Greek dialect Griko is spoken.
==History== In the 5th century, Soleto was elevated to the seat of a bishopric of the Byzantine Rite. In the Middle Ages it was ruled by Count Gjon Kastrioti II, son of the Albanian national hero Gjergj Kastrioti. In the 13th century the Angevine rulers of Naples chose the city as the capital of a county, later ruled by the Castro, Balzo, Orsini, Campofregoso, Castriota, Sanseverino, Carafa, and Gallarati-Scotti families, until feudal control was finally abolished in 1806. Soleto became part of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 and was a center of the Carboneria during the Italian Risorgimento.