Umbriatico
Sign in to saveUmbriatico is a comune and town in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, southern Italy. As of 2007 Umbriatico had an estimated population of 930.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Umbriatico
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Umbriatico
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Umbriatico.jpg
- Italian comune.image_shield
- umbriatico-Stemma.gif
- Italian comune.region
- Calabria
- Italian comune.province
- Crotone (KR)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Perticaro
- Italian comune.mayor
- Pietro Grillo
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 72
- Italian comune.population_total
- 930
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 2007
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 422
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 88823
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0962
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Umbriatico is a comune and town in the province of Crotone, in Calabria, southern Italy. As of 2007 Umbriatico had an estimated population of 930.
==History== Umbriatico was founded by the Oenotrians before the arrival of the Greek colonists who founded nearby Kroton. During the Second Punic War it had a defensive wall, but this did not prevent the Romans from storming it and massacring the population.