Province of Frosinone
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Italy |
| Region | Latium |
| Capital | Frosinone |
| Area | km² |
| Population (2001) | 484,589 |
| Density | 149 |
| Municipalities | 91 |
| Italian car number plates>Vehicle Registration | FR |
| Postal Code | 03100 |
| Telephone Prefix | 0775 |
| Istituto Nazionale di Statistica>ISTAT | 060 |
| President | Francesco Scalia
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Frosinone (in Italian, Provincia di Frosinone) is a province in the Latium region of Italy, with 91 comuni. Its capital is the city of Frosinone. It has an area of 3,244 km², and a total population of 484,566 (2001).
The Province was established by Royal Decree on 6 December 1926 with territories belonging to Lazio and to Campania. At the same time the Province of Latina (originary called Littoria) was also established. The Campania areas were the left valley of the Liri-Garigliano river, the district of Sora, the Comino Valley, the district of Cassino, the Gulf of Formia and Gaeta, the Pontine isles, which until then had been for centuries included in the Province called Terra di Lavoro, of the Kingdom of Naples (or of the Two Sicilies).
Main communes
As of may 31, 2005, the main communes by population are:
| Commune | Population |
|---|---|
| Frosinone | 48,621 |
| Cassino | 32,617 |
| Alatri | 27,993 |
| Sora | 26,430 |
| Ceccano | 22,495 |
| Ferentino | 20,523 |
| Veroli | 20,144 |
| Anagni | 19,330 |
| Pontecorvo | 13,214 |
| Monte San Giovanni Campano | 12,818 |
| Isola del Liri | 12,072 |
| Fiuggi | 9,113 |
| Boville Ernica | 8,927 |
| Ceprano | 8,341 |
| Paliano | 7,897 |
| Arpino | 7,720 |
| Roccasecca | 7,522 |
| Cervaro | 7,101 |
| Sant'Elia Fiumerapido | 6,310 |
| Arce | 5,982 |
| Piedimonte San Germano | 5,395 |
| Ripi | 5,384 |
| Aquino | 5,329 |
History
The first traces of human presence in the provincial territory date back to pre-historical times: a famous skull of Homo erectus (the so-called Homo cepranensis, in the Prehistorical Museum of Pofi), dating from 800,000 years ago, constitutes the most ancient finding of the Homo species in Europe.
In historical times (10th-9th centuries BCE), the area, precedently occupied by the so-called Pelasgic civilization, was settled by Indo-European colonists. This arrival is echoed in numerous legends, like those of Aeneas and Saturn: the latter, ousted by the Olympus, would come to the Lazio to help the men and found seven cities whose name begin with "A" (for example, Alatri and Anagni).
In the 7th century BCE the area of what is now the province entered in the orbit of Rome, who made it the so-called 'Latium Adjectum'' ("Adjoined Latium"). However, Rome needed some 300 years to obtain a definitive victory against the Volsci and the Hernici, who became Romanized after the Social Wars and the Samnite Wars.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the northern part of the province (usually referred to as Ciociaria) belonged to the Papal States. In the Middle Ages, the abbey of Monte Cassino was always a major landowner and a politically recnkowned element of the area. The southern-eastern part was a frontier area which was long contented by the major other powers of the time, the Duchies of Benevento, Gaeta and the County of Aversa: annexed to the Kingdom of Naples under the Normans (12th century), from the late 14th century it became part of county and then, with an independent status, of the Duchy of Sora. Pontecorvo remained a Papal enclave from 1463.
After the unification of Italy, in 1927 the Fascist government made Frosinone the capital of a province which unificated the different areas which has belonged to the Papal and Neapolitan states: this move caused criticism, as they were considered too different in history, language and culture, especially by the Bourbon nostalgic party which matained a strong position in southern Italy for numerous decades.
The creation of a new province, with capitals in Cassino and Formia and comprising the former territories in the Kingdom of Naples, has been proposed.
| Europe | Italia | Latium (Lazio) | |
| Frosinone | Latina | Rieti | Rome (Roma) | Viterbo | |
| Acquafondata | Acuto | Alatri | Alvito | Amaseno | Anagni | Aquino | Arce | Arnara | Arpino | Atina | Ausonia | Belmonte Castello | Boville Ernica | Broccostella | Campoli Appennino | Casalattico | Casalvieri | Cassino | Castelliri | Castelnuovo Parano | Castro dei Volsci | Castrocielo | Ceccano | Ceprano | Cervaro | Colfelice | Colle San Magno | Collepardo | Coreno Ausonio | Esperia | Falvaterra | Ferentino | Filettino | Fiuggi | Fontana Liri | Fontechiari | Frosinone | Fumone | Gallinaro | Giuliano di Roma | Guarcino | Isola del Liri | Monte San Giovanni Campano | Morolo | Paliano | Pastena | Patrica | Pescosolido | Picinisco | Pico | Piedimonte San Germano | Piglio | Pignataro Interamna | Pofi | Pontecorvo | Posta Fibreno | Ripi | Rocca d'Arce | Roccasecca | San Biagio Saracinisco | San Donato Val di Comino | San Giorgio a Liri | San Giovanni Incarico | San Vittore del Lazio | Sant'Ambrogio sul Garigliano | Sant'Andrea del Garigliano | Sant'Apollinare | Sant'Elia Fiumerapido | Santopadre | Serrone | Settefrati | Sgurgola | Sora | Strangolagalli | Supino | Terelle | Torre Cajetani | Torrice | Trevi nel Lazio | Trivigliano | Vallecorsa | Vallemaio | Vallerotonda | Veroli | Vicalvi | Vico nel Lazio | Villa Latina | Villa Santa Lucia | Villa Santo Stefano | Viticuso'' |
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