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Tursi, old village in Basilicata Royalty Free Stock Photo

Landscape from Tursi, old village in Basilicata Royalty Free Stock Photo

Tursi, Bell Tower of Santa Maria Maggiore Church in Rabatana district, Basilicata, Matera Province, Italy. In 968, in the Byzantine era, Tursi became the capital of the theme of Lucania, and the seat of a Greek rite bishop. From the beginning of the 18th century until the Bourbon reform of 1816 (except in 1799, when it was annexed to the department of Crati, or to Calabria Cosenza), Tursi was the first of the four divisions of the then province of Basilicata, where the royal perceitor of Basilicata had his seat and its borders, extended to the Ionian Sea, included the tower of Trisaja, south of the mouth of the river Sinni, one of the seven coastal towers of the Kingdom of Naples to protect the Ionian coast of Lucania