Caltabellotta

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Comune in Sicily, Italy

Coat of arms

Location of Caltabellotta

37°35′N 13°13′E / 37.583°N 13.217°E / 37.583; 13.217CountryItalyRegionSicilyProvinceAgrigento (AG)FrazioniSant'AnnaGovernment

• MayorPaolo Luciano SegretoArea

^[1]

• Total124.09 km² (47.91 sq mi)Elevation

949 m (3,114 ft)Population

(30 April 2017)^[2]

• Total3,601 • Density29/km² (75/sq mi)DemonymCaltabellottesiTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

92010

Dialing code0925Patron saintSaint PellegrinoSaint day18 AugustWebsiteOfficial website

Caltabellotta (Sicilian: Cataviḍḍotta) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Agrigento, in the Italian region Sicily, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) south of Palermo and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northwest of Agrigento.

History

Caltabellotta has been identified with the ancient town of the Sicani Triocala, captured by the Romans in 99 BC. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and several centuries under the Byzantine Empire, it was stormed by the Arabs, who later built here a castle. In 1090 it was conquered by the Normans of Roger I of Sicily.

The diocese of Triocala, called in Latin Trecalae in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees,^[3] is mentioned in the 6th-century Synecdemus as Τρόκαλις (Trocalis).^[4]

Its reputed first bishop was Saint Pellegrino, a disciple of Saint Peter. Historical documents give the names of four bishops of the see:^[5]

Peter, mentioned in two letters of Pope Gregory I in about 598;
Maximus, who took part in the Lateran Council of 649 called by Pope Martin I;
Gregory, who signed the acts of the Third Council of Constantinople in 680;
John, who participated in the Second Council of Nicaea

The town was the location of the Peace of Caltabellotta (1302) which ended the War of the Sicilian Vespers.

People

Pedro de Luna - Peralta y Medici-Salviati

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 996
^ Hieroclis Synecdemus et notitiae graecae episcopatuum, accedunt Nili Doxapatrii notitia patriarchatuum et locorum nomina immutata, ex recognitione Gustavi Parthey, Berlin 1866, p. 77 (nº 586)
^ Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venezia 1870, vol. XXI, pp. 606–607