- Grecìa Salentina
Grecia Salentina (Salentinian
Greece ) is a Griko-speaking area in thepeninsula ofSalento in southernItaly , near the town ofLecce . It consists of nine towns and belongs to province of Lecce and the administrative area ofApulia ("Puglia").Nine towns make part of it: Calimera, Martano, Castrignano dei Greci, Corigliano d'Otranto, Melpignano, Soleto, Sternatia, Zollino and Martignano.
In addition to these, there are two more towns represented in the Union of the Towns of Grecìa Salentina ("Unione dei Comuni della Grecìa Salentina"),
Carpignano Salentino andCutrofiano , though the inhabitants of these two towns have not spoken the Greek dialect called "griko" in two centuries.Demographics
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Calimera 7,296 inhabitants
*Castrignano de' Greci 4,107 inhabitants
*Corigliano d'Otranto 5,632 inhabitants
*Martano 9,573 inhabitants
*Martignano 1,770 inhabitants
*Melpignano 2,209 inhabitants
*Soleto 5,537 inhabitants
*Sternatia 2,698 inhabitants
*Zollino 2,194 inhabitantsTotal: 41,016 inhabitants
External links
* [http://www.greciasalentina.org/ Grecia Salentina] official site (in Italian)
* [http://www.salentogriko.info/ Salento Griko] (in Italian)
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