مقاطعة لاتينا

Province of Latina Provincia di Latina (إيطالية)
مقاطعة
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البلد	إيطاليا
Region	لاتسيو
العاصمة	لاتينا
Comuni	33
الحكومة
• President	Gerardo Stefanelli (IV)
المساحة
• الإجمالي	2٬251 كم² (869 ميل²)
التعداد  (2012)
• الإجمالي	561٬189
• الكثافة	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
GDP
• Total	€12.524 billion (2015)
• Per capita	€21,844 (2015)
منطقة التوقيت	UTC+1 (CET)
• الصيف (التوقيت الصيفي)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	04100
Telephone prefix	0773, 06, 0771
لوحة السيارة	LT
ISTAT	059
الموقع الإلكتروني	Official website

مقاطعة لاتينا (Provincia di Latina، مقاطعة في جنوب وسط إيطاليا في إقليم لاتسيو ، عدد سكانها 519.850 نسمة و مساحتها 2251 كيلومتر مربع و بها 33 مدينة و بلدة و قرية و عاصمتها مدينة لاتينا ، يحدها من الشمال مقاطعة فروزينوني ، و من الشمال الغربي مقاطعة روما ، و من الجنوب الشرقي إقليم كامبانيا (عند مقاطعة كازيرتا) ، و من الجنوب البحر التيراني.

 أهم المدن

	المدينة	الاسم بالإيطالية	السكان
1	لاتينا	Latina	112,533
2	أبريليا	Aprilia	63,265
3	تيراتشينا	Terracina	42,669
4	فورميا	Formia	36,822
5	فوندي	Fondi	35,115
6	تشيستيرنا دي لاتينا	Cisterna di Latina	33,108
7	سيتسي	Sezze	22,859
8	غاييتا	Gaeta	21,541

 History

The province of Latina was founded on 18 December 1934, encompassing mainly the drained areas of the Agro Pontino previously part of the province of Rome. Apart from the Pontine lands, it includes the Aurunci, Lepini and Ausoni mountain ranges, as well as the Pontine islands archipelago. The port of Gaeta and Formia, in the southernmost part of the province, belonged traditionally and linguistically to Campania.

In Bronze Age, complex permanent settlement systems and functionally differentiated societies developed in the Pontine region. This included preparation of fish and salt at the coast and metallurgy slightly inland. Late Iron Age fortified settlements evolved on the Alban hills and Monti Lepini. Small-scale farming and urbanisation developed only in or right before the Roman Age with transhumant pastoralism still continuing. From 350 BC onwards, the colonies of Cora (Cori), Norba and Setia (Sezze) were built. The small peasant economy was gradually replaced by large specialised latifundia.

 Geography

Although the smallest of the provinces in the Lazio region, the province of Latina includes a variety of geographical and historical areas.

 Hill and mountain areas

The mainland area is, in the south- and north-eastern part, mostly occupied by limestone hills and mountains. Ranges include the Lepini, Aurunci, Ausoni. The highest elevation is that of 1,533-metre (5,030 ft) Monte Petrella (Aurunci). The climate is semi-continental with hot summers and cold winters; temperatures rarely fall below 0 °C (32 °F). The mountains are characterized by small medieval settlements (borghi) and traditionally live of cattle raising and agriculture; however, these activities saw a marked decline in recent times, and today workers usually commute daily to work in Rome or Latina. Tourism is an increasing interesting resource, attracted especially by the uncontaminated nature and by artistic traces of the Middle Ages (Abbeys of Valvisciolo and Fossanova, where St. Thomas Aquinas died). The main centres of this area are Cori, Sezze, and Priverno.

 Agro Pontino

The Agro Pontino occupies the plain extending southwards from Aprilia to Terracina, along the Tyrrhenian Sea. Until the 1930s, it was covered by unhealthy marshes, which were dried up under Fascist government; the area as subsequently settled by immigrants coming from north-eastern Italy, in newly built cities like Sabaudia or Latina itself. The sole mountain peak is that of Circeo promontory. The climate is mild. The Agro Pontino is the most economically developed part of the province, housing a flourishing agricultural sector and numerous service firms and industries. It also houses much of the water basins of the province, like the coast Lakes of Fogliano, Caprolace, and Paola.

Apart the capital, the main cities include Cisterna di Latina, Terracina, Sabaudia.

Linguistic map of Southern Lazio: Central Italian in pink and Southern Italian (Neapolitan language) in magenta

 Formia and Gaeta

Cities rich of ancient and medieval history, Gaeta and Formia were traditionally part of the Kingdom of Naples. They belonged to the Campania region until 1934. Traces of the different cultural milieu can be identified in the costumes and, most of all, in the local dialect, a variant of Neapolitan. Formia and Gaeta constitutes a single metropolitan area with an important port (with connection to the Pontine Islands), a station on the main railway line Rome-Naples. Other important centres include Sperlonga and Minturno.

 Pontine Islands

المقالة الرئيسية: Pontine Islands

Once mainly used as penitentiaries, the Pontine Islands are now a renowned tourist resort in summer. The only inhabited islands are Ponza and Ventotene.

 See also

• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gaeta#Province of Latina

 وصلات خارجية

• الموقع الرسمي