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Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy: Being a Guide for the Provinces Formerly Constituting the Continental Portion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; With a Travelling Map, Several Plans, &C
In ancient times the Tiber was the boundary between U per and Lower Italy. The acquisitions of the Holy See in the mi dle ages changed the ancient landmarks, and transferred a rtion of Southern Italy to the Papes. The frontier-line which now Ivides the provinces of Naples from the Papal States, with few tri?ing exceptions, was before the recent political changes the same as it was at the establish ment of the monarchy b the Normans in 1130. It commenced on the Adriatic at the N. Ank of the Tronto, and terminated on the shore of the Mediterranean, about 2 m. E. Of Terracina. The length of this line of frontier, following its numerous windings, was about 210 m. The direct distance is not more than 115.
The area included within these limits was estimated at about English square miles. The length of the kingdom, measured along the curved line of the chain of the Apennines, from the Tronto to the Capo Spartivento, was 350 m the breadth varying considerably. From the mouth of the Garigliano in the Bay of Gaeta, to the mouth of the Trigno on the Adriatic, is 70 m., and about the same from Salerno to the mouth of the Carapelle; from Capo di Licosa to Bari 112 m., and to Brindisi 150; from the shore N. Of Paola to S. Of the mouth of the Crati it is 29 m., and only 16 between the Gulfs of Sant' Eufemia and of Squillace.
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