Salerno (ita)

Salerno

Salerno ranks 1,209th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Perth, Scotland, Hitchin, and Slough. Memorable people born in Salerno include Trota of Salerno, Renato Martino, and Nicola Abbagnano. Memorable people who died in Salerno include Pope Gregory VII, Michele Ruggieri, and Sibylla of Burgundy. Salerno has been the birth place of many physicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Salerno is located in Italy.

Salerno is an ancient city and comune (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. In recent history the city hosted Victor Emmanuel III, the King of Italy, who moved from Rome in 1943 after Italy negotiated a peace with the Allies in World War II, making Salerno the capital of the "Government of the South" and therefore provisional government seat for six months and so one of the former capitals of Italy. Some of the Allied landings during Operation Avalanche occurred near Salerno. It has 125,958 inhabitants as of 2025. Read more on Wikipedia