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Comune di Taranto
Coat of arms of Comune di Taranto
Municipal coat of arms

Location of Taranto in Italy
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Region Puglia
Province Taranto (TA)
Mayor Ippazio Ezio Stefàno
Elevation 15 m (49 ft)
Area 217 km² (84 sq mi)
Population (as of 2001)
 - Total 201,349
 - Density 928/km² (2,404/sq mi)
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 40°28′N 17°14′E
Gentilic Tarantini or Tarentini
Dialing code 099
Postal code 74100
Frazioni Talsano, Lido Azzurro, Lama, San Vito
Patron San Cataldo
 - Day May 10
Website: www.comune.taranto.it

Taranto (Greek: Taras, Tarantas) is a coastal city in Puglia, Southern Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Apulia ( Italian: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east the Ionian Sea In Italy, a Province (in Italian provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between Municipality ( Comune The Province of Taranto (Provincia di Taranto is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. 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 A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a Comune; for other Administrative Events 1291 - Scottish Nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Apulia ( Italian: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east the Ionian Sea Geography Southern Italy forms the lower "boot" of the Italian peninsula containing the ankle (Abruzzo and Molise and southern Lazio the toe (Calabria and the heel It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base. The Province of Taranto (Provincia di Taranto is a province in the Apulia region of Italy.

It is the third-largest continental city of southern Italy: according to the 2001 census, it has population of 201,349. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Taranto (NASA).
Taranto (NASA).
The swing bridge is the symbol of Taranto.
The swing bridge is the symbol of Taranto.
Flight path of British aircraft in WWII.
Flight path of British aircraft in WWII.

Taranto is an important commercial and military port. It has well-developed steel and iron foundries, oil refineries, chemical works, some shipyards for building warships, and food-processing factories.

Taranto history dates back to the 8th century BC when it was founded as a Greek colony. The 8th century BC started the first day of 800 BC and ended the last day of 701 BC. The ancient city was situated on a peninsula, protected by a helm; the modern city has been built over the ancient Greek necropolis. A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. A necropolis (plural necropoleis or necropoles) is a large Cemetery or burial place (from Greek nekropolis "city of the dead"

The islets of S. Pietro and S. Paolo (St. Peter and St. Paul) protect the bay, called Mar Grande (Big Sea), where the commercial port is located. Another bay, called Mar Piccolo (Little Sea), is formed by the old city, and there fishing is flourishing; Mar Piccolo is a military port with a strategic importance. For the computer security term see Phishing. Fishing is the activity of catching Fish.

At the end of the 19th century, a channel was excavated to allow the military ships to enter Mar Piccolo harbour, and the ancient Greek city become an island. In addition, the islets and the coast are strongly fortified. Because of the presence of these two bays, Taranto is also called “the city of the two seas”.

The Greek colonists from Sparta called the city Taras (Τάρας), after the mythical hero Taras, while the Romans, who connected the city to Rome with an extension of the Appian way, called it Tarentum. The Greeks ( Greek: Έλληνες) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Taras (Τάρας was according to Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and of the nymph Satyrion. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia) was the most important ancient Roman road.

Taranto is also famous for the British attack on the Regia Marina base during the World War II, known as the Battle (or Night) of Taranto. The Regia Marina ( Italian Royal Navy) dates from the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 after Italian unification. 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 naval Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11 November 1940 &ndash 12 November 1940 during World War II

Taranto is also the origin of the common name of the Tarantula spider species, Theraphosidae. Tarantula is the common name for a group of hairy and often very large Spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae, of which approximately 900 species Tarantula is the common name for a group of hairy and often very large Spiders belonging to the family Theraphosidae, of which approximately 900 species In ancient times, residents of the town of Taranto, upon being bitten by the large local Wolf Spider, Lycosa tarentula, would promptly do a long vigorous dance like a Jig. The "tarantula" wolf spider ( Lycosa tarantula) is a Wolf spider from the area around a city in Italy now called Taranto The jig (port is a Folk dance type as well as the accompanying dance tune type popular in Ireland. This was done in order to sweat most of the poison out of their pores and thus survive the spider bite. The dance they did became locally known as the Tarantella, which eventually became the name we use today to describe the large, sometimes hairy type of spider, the Tarantula. The Tarantella is an Italian dance its name coming from the town of Taranto, where it originated

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History

Main article: History of Taranto
Ancient coin from Taranto, with the eponym Taras hero riding a dolphin.
Ancient coin from Taranto, with the eponym Taras hero riding a dolphin. The history of Taranto dates back to the 8th century BC when it was founded as a Greek colony

Taranto was founded in 706 BC by Dorian immigrants as the only Spartan colony, and its origin is peculiar: the founders were Partheniae, sons of unmarried Spartan women and Perioeci (free men, but not citizens of Sparta); these unions were permitted by the Spartans to increase the number of soldiers (only the citizens of Sparta could become soldiers) during the bloody Messenian wars, but later they were nullified, and the sons were forced to leave. The Dorians or Dorian Greeks ( Greek:, Dōrieis singular, Dōrieus were The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη In Ancient Greece, the Partheniae or Parthenians (in Greek / hoi Partheníai, literally “sons of virgins” i The perioeci, or perioikoi, were the members of an autonomous group of free but non-citizen inhabitants of Sparta. Messenia or Messinia (Μεσσηνία is a prefecture in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. This article covers the history of Sparta from its founding to the present concentrating primarily on the Spartan state during the height of its power from the 6th Phalanthus, the parthenian leader, went to Delphi to consult the oracle: the puzzling answer designated the harbour of Taranto as the new home of the exiles. Delphi ( Greek,) ( pronounce and dialectal forms) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western The word sibyl probably comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning Prophetess (Other schools of thought suggest that the word The Partheniae arrived in Apulia, and founded the city, naming it Taras after the son of the Greek sea god, Poseidon, and of a local nymph, Satyrion. In Greek mythology, Poseidon ( Greek:; Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the Sea and as "Earth-Shaker" According to other sources, Heracles founded the city. In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera " or Another tradition indicates Taras as the founder of the city; the symbol of the Greek city (as well as of the modern city) is Taras riding a dolphin. Taranto increased its power, becoming a commercial power and a sovereign city of Magna Graecia, ruling over the Greek colonies in southern Italy. Colonies in antiquity were City-states founded from a mother- City

Taranto as a center of ancient art

A dancing maenad. This is a Greek statuette from the 3rd century BC. It was made in Taranto
A dancing maenad. This is a Greek statuette from the 3rd century BC. It was made in Taranto
See also: Apulian vase painting

Taras was also the center of a thriving decorated Greek pottery industry during the 4th century BC. Apulian vase painting was the leading South Italian vase painting tradition between 430 and 300 BC Thanks to its hardy nature pottery bulks large in the archaeological record of Ancient Greece, and because we have so much of it (some 100000 vases are recorded in the Corpus Most of the South Italian Greek vessels known as Basilican ware were made in different workshops in the city. South Italian is a designation for ancient Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia largely during the Fourth Century B The Latin word basilica (derived from Greek, Basiliké Stoà, Royal Stoa) was originally used to describe a Roman

Unfortunately none of the names of the artists have survived, so modern scholars have been obliged to give the recognizable artistic hands and workshops nicknames based on the subject matter of their works, museums which possess the works, or individuals who have distinguished the works from others. Some of the most famous of the Apulian vase painters at Taras are now called: the Iliupersis Painter, the Lycurgus Painter, the Gioia del Colle Painter, the Darius Painter, the Underworld Painter, and the White Sakkos Painter, among others. The Darius Painter was an Apulian vase painter and the most eminent representative at the end of the " Ornate Style " in South Italian

The wares produced by these workshops were usually large elaborate vessels intended for mortuary use. The forms produced included volute kraters, loutrophoroi, paterai, oinochoai, lekythoi, fish plates, etc. A loutrophoros ( Ancient Greek: λουτροφόρος Greek etymology: λουτρόν/loutron and φέρω/pherō English translation: "bathwater" An oenochoe, also spelled oinochoe, (Gr Οινοχόη is a Wine jug and a key form of Greek pottery. A lekythos (plural lekythoi) is a type of Greek pottery used for storing oil especially olive oil This article relates to the type of Greek pottery For the connection bar used in railways see Fishplate. The decoration of these vessels was red figure (with figures reserved in red clay fabric, while the background was covered in a black gloss), with overpainting (sovradipinto) in white, pink, yellow, and maroon slips. Red-figure vase painting is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting.

Often the style of the drawings are very florid, and frilly, as was already the fashion in Fourth-Century Athens. Distinctive South Italian features also begin to appear. Many figures are shown seated on rocks. Floral motifs become very ornate, including spiraling vines and leaves, roses, lilies, poppies, sprays of laurel, acanthus leaves, etc. Often the subject matter consists of naiskos scenes (scenes showing the statue of a deceased person in a naos, a miniature temple or shrine). Most often the naiskos scene occupies one side of the vase, while a mythological scene occupies the other. Images depicting many of the Greek myths are only known from South Italian vases, since Athenian ones seem to have had more limited repertoires of depiction.

Main sights

Notable people

These historical figures have had a relationship with the city. Not all of them were actually born in Taranto.

Citations

Horace to Septimius Odes - Plate
Horace to Septimius Odes - Plate
Wikiquote "Dearest of all to me is that nook of earth
which yields not to Hymettus for its honey, nor for its olive to green Venafrum;
where heaven grants a long springtime and warmth in winter,
and in the sunny hollows Bacchus fosters a vintage noble as the Falernian. "
Horace - To Septimius (Odes, II , 6-10)


Wikiquote "Dicas adductum propius frondere Tarentum. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ( Venosa, December 8, 65 BC - Rome, November 27, 8 BC known in the English-speaking world as Horace Septimius or Septiminus was a Roman usurper proclaimed emperor in 271 in Dalmatia, during Emperor Aurelian 's reign Ode (from the Ancient Greek) is a form of stately and elaborate lyrical verse. "
Horace - To his friend Quinctius, telling that a lovely place in country may look like the leafy Taranto. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ( Venosa, December 8, 65 BC - Rome, November 27, 8 BC known in the English-speaking world as Horace (Epistula I, 16, 11)


Miscellaneous

Sources and external links


Dictionary

Taranto

-proper noun

  1. A province of Apulia, Italy.
  2. The capital city of Taranto.
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