Difesa Grande

Difesa Grande is a hamlet in Melito Irpino, Avellino, Campania and has about 76 residents. Difesa Grande is situated nearby to the hamlet Cinquegrana, as well as near Incoronata.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aeclanum and D’Aquino Castle.

Aeclanum

Archaeological site

Photo: MassimoWiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Aeclanum was an ancient town of Samnium, Southern Italy, about 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia. It lies in Passo di Mirabella, near the modern Mirabella Eclano. It is now an archaeological park. Aeclanum is situated 3½ km south of Difesa Grande.

D’Aquino Castle

Castle

Photo: Fiore S. Barbato, CC BY-SA 2.0.

D’Aquino Castle is situated 3½ km east of Difesa Grande.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melito Irpino and Grottaminarda.

Melito Irpino

Village

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Melito Irpino is a town and comune in the province of Avellino, in the Campania region of south-western Italy. Melito Irpino is situated 3½ km northeast of Difesa Grande.

Grottaminarda

Village

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Grottaminarda is a town and comune in the province of Avellino, situated 80 kilometres northeast of Naples, in the southwest of Italy. Grottaminarda is part of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia and its territory borders with the municipalities of Ariano Irpino, Bonito, Flumeri, Fontanarosa, Frigento, Gesualdo, Melito Irpino and Mirabella Eclano. Grottaminarda is situated 3½ km southeast of Difesa Grande.

Carpignano

Hamlet

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Carpignano is a southern Italian village and hamlet of Grottaminarda, a municipality in the province of Avellino, Campania. In 2011 it had a population of 219. Carpignano is situated 6 km southeast of Difesa Grande.

Difesa Grande

Type: Hamlet with 76 residents
Description: human settlement in Italy
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Melito Irpino, Avellino, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude

41.08308° or 41° 4′ 59″ north

Longitude

15.02204° or 15° 1′ 19″ east

Population

Elevation

502 metres (1,647 feet)

Open location code

8FHQ32MC+6R

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1349282164

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

8958403

Wikidata ID

Q18435261

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Waray—“Difesa Grande” goes by many names.

Basque: “Difesa Grande”
Catalan: “Difesa Grande”
Cebuano: “Difesa Grande”
Chechen: “Дифеза Гранде (Авелино)”
Chechen: “Дифеза Гранде”
Czech: “Difesa Grande”
Danish: “Difesa Grande”
Dutch: “Difesa Grande, Avellino”
Finnish: “Difesa Grande”
French: “Difesa Grande”
Indonesian: “Difesa Grande”
Italian: “Difesa Grande”
Norwegian Bokmål: “Difesa Grande”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Difesa Grande”
Occitan (post 1500): “Difesa Grande”
Polish: “Difesa Grande”
Portuguese: “Difesa Grande”
Romanian: “Difesa Grande”
Serbian: “Difesa Grande”
Serbian: “Дифеза Гранде”
Serbo-Croatian: “Difesa Grande, Avellino”
Slovak: “Difesa Grande”
Slovenian: “Difesa Grande”
Spanish: “Difesa Grande”
Swedish: “Difesa Grande”
Tagalog: “Difesa Grande”
Tatar: “Дифеза Гранде (Авелино)”
Tatar: “Дифеза Гранде”
Turkish: “Difesa Grande”
Waray (Philippines): “Difesa Grande”

Localities in the Area

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