Taurasi
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- Italian comune.name
- Taurasi
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Taurasi (5289110742).jpg
- Italian comune.region
- Campania
- Italian comune.province
- Avellino (AV)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Salvatore De Rosa
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 14.41
- Italian comune.population_total
- 2316
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 December 2017
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Taurasini
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 384
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Marcian
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 83030
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0827
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Taurasi is a town and municipality in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy. In antiquity it was a town in Samnium. The town's name probably derives from the Latin Taurus. Over time it changed from Taurasos to Taurasia (not to be confused with the Taurasia founded in northern Italy by the Taurini, which is now called Turin) before changing to its current form. Taurasi is best known for its increasingly famous red wine also named Taurasi, made of Aglianico grapes along with Piedirosso and Barbera grapes.
== History == According to the epitaph on the sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, consul of Rome in 298 BC, he captured Taurasia (and Cisauna) from the Samnites. However, modern scholars have ruled out that ancient Taurasia (surely located north-east of Beneventum) could be related to modern Taurasi.