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20 unusual facts about Cosenza


Arberesh Orthodox Church

Its head church is in Acquaformosa near Cosenza and is headed by Father Giovanni Capparelli, who is a subordinate of the Patriarch of Moscow.

Bandiera Brothers

Four days later they landed near Crotone, intending to go to Cosenza, liberate the political prisoners and issue their proclamations.

Battle of Pandosia

According to him, he took the Tarantine colony Heraclea from the Lucanians; Sipontum which belonged to the Apulians; the Bruttian towns Cosentia, Terina and several more Messapian and Lucanian towns.

Busento

The Busento River joins the Crathis in the centre of Cosenza.

Cerruti 1881

There are Cerruti 1881, 18CRR81 and Cerruti stores throughout the world in Milan, Cosenza, Madrid, London, Munich, Stockholm, Athens, Birmingham, Riyadh, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, Damascus, Jakarta, and Tokyo among other locations.

Coscile

Near Spezzano Albanese the river is also crossed by the railway line from Cosenza to Sibari.

Faiano

Nearest motorway exits are "Pontecagnano" and "Montecorvino Pugliano" on the A3 Motorway Naples-Salerno-Cosenza-Reggio Calabria.

Fiamuri Arbërit

Fiamuri Arbërits first issue was published on July 20, 1883 in Cosenza, Italy by Jeronim de Rada, one of the leading figures of Albanian literature of the 19th century.

Fortunato Anselmo

Born October 1, 1883, in Grimaldi, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, Fortunato Anselmo immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.

Joachim of Fiore

He spent the following year and a half at the Cistercian Abbey of Casamari, where he engaged in writing his three great books, his dictations keeping three scribes busy night and day; there the young monk, Lucas (afterwards Archbishop of Cosenza), who acted as his secretary, was amazed to see so famous and eloquent a man wearing such rags, and the wonderful devotion with which he preached and said Mass.

Born in the small village of Celico near Cosenza, in Calabria, at the time part of the Kingdom of Sicily, Joachim was the son of Mauro the notary, who was well placed, and Gemma, his wife.

Mario Maiolo

Inizia la militanza politica all'interno del movimento studentesco cattolico cosentino per poi aderire alla Democrazia Cristiana e, al suo scioglimento, al Partito Popolare Italiano, ricoprendo la carica di primo segretario cittadino di Cosenza.

Mario Maiolo (Cosenza, 1963) è consigliere regionale, eletto per la IX Legislatura nel Consiglio regionale della Calabria nella lista del Partito Democratico (PD).

Dal 1994 al 2004 ricopre la carica di Vice Presidente della Provincia di Cosenza, esercitando nel tempo varie deleghe, tra le quali, territorio e sviluppo, politiche comunitarie, servizi sociali, energia, piano territoriale di coordinamento provinciale, protezione civile.

Music of Calabria

The Teatro Rendano, in Cosenza, is the only truly traditional theater in Calabria.

Nicola Marozzo

Nicola Marozzo (born March 1, 1965) is a former Italian racing driver from Zumpano,near Cosenza.

Quattromiglia

It was due to the name of a farmhouse, 4 miles far from Cosentia, the modern Cosenza.

Located in the northern suburb of Cosenza (6 km far) and bordering with it, Quattromiglia is 7 km far from Rende, 8 from Castiglione Cosentino and 28 from Paola.

Quattromiglia, also known as Quattromiglia di Rende, is an Italian hamlet (frazione) of the municipality of Rende in the province of Cosenza, Calabria.

Zampogna

The single reed versions consist of the "surdullina" types of the Province of Cosenza and Catanzaro, and the ciaramella or ciaramedda of Messina and Catania in Sicily, as well as in Southern Calabria.


ACRI

Acri, a town in the province of Cosenza, southern Italy

Brian Solis

He has also written the foreword for several best selling books including, Social Media ROI (Olivier Blanchard), At Your Service (Frank Eliason), Share This Too (Paul Fabretti), Social ROI (Vincenzo Cosenza), Think Before You Engage (Dave Peck), Smart Business Social Business (Michael Brito), The Hidden Power of Your Customers (Becky Carroll), The Social Customer (Adam Metz), Twitfaced (Jacob Morgan), Social Media Geek-to-Geek (Synopsys).

Coeli

Scala Coeli is a village and commune in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.

Corigliano

Corigliano Calabro, a municipality in the Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy

Giovanni Defendi

A native of Cosenza, she had lost her parents in a cholera epidemic and had been adopted by the family of the internationalist Tito Zanardelli.

History of Cosenza Calcio 1914

In 2007, Cosenza gave up its Serie D membership, but all the team players later joined new club Fortitudo Cosenza, born as relocation of Rende Calcio, a team from the neighbouring city of Rende which was relegated from Serie C2 in 2006-07 and moved to Cosenza soon after.

Langobardia Minor

So became subject to the two duchies the entire Adriatic coast between Byzantine strongholds of Ancona in the north and Otranto in the south; the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian, however, only partially fell under the authority of the duke of Benevento, which was never able to permanently occupy Naples, the Salento and the tip of Calabria (south of Cosenza and Crotone), and of course, Rome and its suburbs.

Mario Bellizzi

Mario Bellizzi (born 1957), a poet of the Arbëresh-speaking minority of southern Italy, was born in San Basile in the province of Cosenza.

Morano

Morano Calabro, a place in the southern Italian province of Cosenza

Sandro Porchia

Sandro Antonio Porchia (born 14 June 1977 in Olpe, Germany) is an Italian footballer who plays for Cosenza.

Spiro Koleka

After completing his secondary education in the Italo–Albanian college of San Demetrio Corone (Collegio of Sant'Adriano), in the Italian province of Cosenza, Spiro Koleka continued his higher education at the University of Pisa (1930–1934) where he graduated as a Civil Engineer.