- For the other Italian commune named Roccasecca, in the province of Latina, see Roccasecca dei Volsci. The Province of Latina (Provincia di Latina is a province in the Lazio region of Italy. Roccasecca dei Volsci is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Latina in the Italian region Lazio, located about 80 km southeast
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| Country |  Italy |
| Region | Lazio |
| Province | Frosinone (FR) |
| Mayor | Giovanni Giorgio (since May 2006) |
| Elevation | 245 m (804 ft) |
| Area | 43 km² (17 sq mi) |
| Population (as of 2001) | |
| - Total | 7,442 |
| - Density | 173/km² (448/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET, UTC+1 |
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| Gentilic | Roccaseccani |
| Dialing code | 0776 |
| Postal code | 03038 |
| Website: www.comune.roccasecca.fr.it | |
Roccasecca is a town and commune in the province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region of central Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest For the football club see SS Lazio Lazio ( Latium in Latin) is a regione of central In Italy, a Province (in Italian provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between Municipality ( Comune The Province of Frosinone ( Italian: Provincia di Frosinone) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place Here are a list of area codes in Italy. All numbers here begin with the country code (0039 The Province of Frosinone ( Italian: Provincia di Frosinone) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 For the football club see SS Lazio Lazio ( Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest It is the birthplace of St. Thomas Aquinas.
History
The history of Roccasecca is tightly bound to its strategic position, a "dry rocca" at the entrance to two narrow defiles that give access to the Valle di Comino, below the slopes of Monte Asprano (553 m. The Comino Valley, or Valle di Comino is located in the Frosinone Province in central Italy ), and a natural position to control the wide Valle del Liri. Remains of archaic perimeter walling attest to early fortified presence around the site. Roccasecca served as a way station for legions and armies crossing the River Melfa, spanned by three ancient bridges here, of which remains persist, but the commune had its real beginnings in the early Middle Ages. Communes in Europe in the Middle Ages were sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms among community members of a town or city The Early Middle Ages is a period in the History of Europe following the fall of the Western Roman Empire spanning roughly five centuries from AD 500
It is commonly remembered that Thomas Aquinas was born at Roccasecca, in the family castle, an important defensive structure that had been erected by Manso, abbot of Monte Cassino in 994, as part of the outward defenses of the abbey, some kilometres distant. For information about the World War II battle see the Battle of Monte Cassino. The Abbot placed in charge of the fortified rocca a collateral branch of the counts of Aquino, whose main seat at Aquino lies eight km. Aquino is town and Comune in the province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region of Italy, 12 km northwest of Cassino to the south; they retained their hold on the place through numerous battles, through the centuries.
After the mid-sixteenth century some of the inhabitants descended to the valley to set up permanent housing there, giving rise to the frazioni Roccasecca Centro, Castello and Caprile. In the ensuing centuries the rocca of Roccasecca passed between the Angevin kings of Naples or the Aragonese, in intermittent contention with the Papal States, with the resulting power over the Valle del Liri. The following is a list of monarchs of the Kingdom of Naples. The Papal States, State(s of the Church or Pontifical States (in Italian Stato Ecclesiastico, Stato della Chiesa, Stati della Chiesa Only in 1583 did Roccasecca gain some permanent security, when the counts of Aquino sold the rights to Giacomo Boncompagni, duca di Sora, the illegitimate son of Pope Gregory XIII (born Ugo Boncompagni), who made of it for the first time a papal fief. Giacomo Boncompagni (also Jacopo Boncompagni; May 8 1548 - August 18 1612) was an Italian powerful feudatory of the 16th century Pope Gregory XIII (January 7 1502 &ndash April 10 1585 born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope from 1572 to 1585 Under the system of Feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing In the seventeenth century Roccasecca fell with the rest of southern Italy into Spanish Hapsburg hands; in the eighteenth century droughts, disease and excessive fiscal pressures served to drastically reduce the number of inhabitants. In the nineteenth century the illusory Napoleonic promises of liberty were dissolved in Carbonaria and brigandage. The Carbonari ("charcoal burners" were groups of secret revolutionary societies founded in early 19th-century Italy.
With the unification of Italy in 1860 and the arrival in 1902 of a railroad that linked Roccasecca with the larger world, the line to Avezzano, emigration to the industrial north or farther abroad became easier, and the agricultural life of Roccasecca remained unbroken until World War II. Italian Unification ( Italian: il Risorgimento, or "The Resurgence" was the political and social movement that unified different states of the Italian Avezzano is a town and Comune in the Abruzzo region Province of L'Aquila. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The war was a dark episode, when Roccasecca was chosen for its rail station and railroad bridge across the Melfa, as the headquarters for the 14th Panzerkorps under General Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, with as a consequence repeated Allied bombing, which fell heavily upon the commune's population, and culminated in a ferocious attack upon the rail station. A Panzer Corps (German Panzerkorps) was a military formation type in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. Frido von Senger und Etterlin ( 4 September 1891 &ndash 9 January 1963) was a German General during World War
In the post-war period reconstruction brought some industry for the first time and modern redevelopment in the demolished area round the renewed railroad station. The seventh centennial of Thomas Aquinas' birth brought a visit by Pope Paul VI, 14 September 1974. Pope
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