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Salerni has strains in Lazio, in Abruzzo between Villalfonsina (CH) and Casalbordino (CH), in Foggia, in Naples and in Castrovillari (CS), Salernitano, very very rare, is Neapolitan, Salerno is widespread in all Italy, although with maximum concentration in the south, should derive From the name Campania Salerno or its ethnic. Integrations provided by Giovanni Vezzelli Salerno is the surname and Toponym Campano, from the Latin Salernum, in Ager Picentinus on the Tyrrrrenian coast. The etymology of the name, according to some ancient writers, from The Voice ' Salum ', in lat. "Sea". For others, however, from the merger of two Idronimi, Salum and Irno (the latter is the city's river). This hypothetical version has been reproposed even more recently. The GEO of the Kingdom of Naples S. Mazzella (sec. XVII) refers to an equally ancient tradition, according to which Salerno "was named by the Silare River" or Siler. But the Diz. Italian toponomastic mentions a "base derives * Sal (a)" meaning ' channel ' and the like, with a formant-Erna that occurs in toponyms that are assigned to the substrate ". That is, of uncertain semantic evaluation. However, considering also other local names in-Erno, that suffix would indicate "production" or "abundance of..." (See lat. ' Taberna ' = warehouse, workshop); Hence the hypothesis of Sal-ernum as "place of production of salt", lat. Sal, Salis. The discourse deserves to be enlarged with reference to the researches on the most remote history of the city. Many historians speak of Latinity, also to emphasize the healthy air of the place: the air of Salerno was advised to Horace; In the days of Dante was very famous medical school Salernitana. Source: E. Finamore, Toponomastic Dictionary of Campania, p. 100.
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