Vibo Valentia

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Vibo Valentia is a town and comune (municipality) in the Calabria region of southern Italy, near the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital of the Vibo Valentia province, and is an agricultural, commercial and tourist center (the most famous places are Tropea, Ricadi and Pizzo). There are also many important manifacturing industries, and here there is the tuna district of Maierato. Very important for the local economy is the Vibo Marina's horbour. Its population according to the 2001 census was 33,957.

History

Vibo Valentia was originally the Greek colony of Hipponion. It was founded, probably around the late 7th century BC, by inhabitants of Locri, a principal city of the Italian Magna Graecia, located to the west of Vibo Valentia on the Ionian Sea.

References

• Vibo Valentia, Comuni-Italiani.it [1]
• The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia University Press. 2001. [2]
• The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites; Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976. ISBN 0691035423 [3]