Marconia
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Marconia is a small community in the region of Basilicata
, Italy
with about 11,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Province of Matera and is considered a "frazione
," or administrative district, of the nearby city of Pisticci
. Marconia is located a few kilometers from the Gulf of Taranto
on a coastal plain.
Marconia is named for Guglielmo Marconi
, a famous 20th century Italian credited with inventing wireless communications (radio).
Basilicata
Basilicata , also known as Lucania, is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south, having one short southwestern coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea between Campania in the northwest and Calabria in the southwest, and a...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
with about 11,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Province of Matera and is considered a "frazione
Frazione
A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...
," or administrative district, of the nearby city of Pisticci
Pisticci
Pisticci is a town comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata....
. Marconia is located a few kilometers from the Gulf of Taranto
Gulf of Taranto
The Gulf of Taranto is a gulf of the Ionian Sea, in southern Italy.The Gulf of Taranto is almost square, 140 km long and wide, and is delimited by the capes Santa Maria di Leuca and Colonna...
on a coastal plain.
Overview
Marconia was settled in the post-World War II period. Many of the town's inhabitants relocated from the older nearby town of Pisticci.Marconia is named for Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
, a famous 20th century Italian credited with inventing wireless communications (radio).