Nicotera

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For the Italian politician, see Giovanni Nicotera

Nicotera is a comune (municipality) in the province of Vibo Valentia, Calabria, Italy. As of 2001, it had 6,767 inhabitants. Nicòtera draws origin from the ancient Greek city of Medma founded by the Locresis of Locri epizephiri. During the Roman domination it partially survived only through the emporium port, near the actual Nicotera Marina ; it was vivacious beginning from the third century to.C. It has been reconstructed later in the first centuries Christ from someone victorious returning from Africa with the name of Nicotera, from the Greek great victory. In the 1065 Roberto the Guiscardo conquered it under the Norman dominion of Ruggiero 1. In XIII° century takes over the House of Swabia; under Fred II° Nicòtera reached the economic wealth. To make more profitable such industries and the commerce, Fred favored the installation of the Hebrews that put today still in the zone said "Giudecca",Hebrews Getto to the shade of the castle and the bishop to be protected from the Christian persecutions.

In the XV° century, under the kingdom of Alfonso of Aragon , it passed under the yoke of the feudalism and it decayed. In 1806 the French revolution swept the feudal system and Nicotera. Returned to sit on the throne in Naples his legitimate sovereign, Ferdinando, king of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies, Nicòtera continued to be chief town of the district with his own dependences the communes of Joppolo and Limbadi .

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