Comune di Montemitro

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Montemitro (Mundimitar) (CB) is located in the Molise region, (Latitude: 41.8881 longitude: 14.6464 surface: 16.05 Km2), along the valley of the Trigno river which marks the border with the Abruzzo region. It is just over 25 km from the Adriatic Sea. Located on a hill of 508 m a.s.l. its climate is therefore excellent. The population is approximately 500 inhabitants. About 600 others have emigrated to large Italian and foreign cities, due to the work that the country cannot offer. Montemitro, is one of the three villages, which together with San Felice del Molise (Filić) and Acquaviva Collecroce (Kru), the local spoken language is Croatian. Now let's analyze the origins of the name of Montemitro, whose existence from an epoch prior to the Slavic migration is attested by numerous documents. The most ancient testimony comes to us from the Chronica monasterii Casinensis (year 1024) which tells us that "Seguenti etiam anno Benedictus quidam cum uxore sua Marenda de Castello Monte Metulo fecit oblationem suam in hoc monasterio de ecclesia Sancti Iohannis que sita est in finibus eiusdem castri iusta fluvium Trinium, cum terra modiorum ducenti LXX, ubi ipsa ecclesia edifica ". Other information regarding Montemitro, from an epoch prior to the arrival of the Croats: "Talenasius filius Sagnalis Domini Montis Mituli" (ay. 1150-1168) "Mons Mitulus" (ay. 1269-70; ay. 1278-79), "Archipresbiter Montis Mituli "(idem, a. 1325)," Clericis Montis Mintuli "(episcopatu Termulano, a. 1328)," Clerici Montis Mileti "(idem, a. 1328). In the Cedolarii of 1320 it is remembered as" Mons Mitulus ", later as "Monte Mitulo", "S. Lucia di Monte Mitulo" and again as "Monte Mirto." Mons. Ferrante, as bishop of Termoli (1569-1593), in his pastoral travels, reports news about the small community of "Montemitolo "The theory expounded by Marcello De Giovanni is fully acceptable, which derives" Montemitro, semantically similar to the Monte Mucchia type since it dates back to metulus per metula dim. Of méta 'every conical or pyramid figure', 'pile, heap, bica ',' méta, colonnetta, term, end '. ”This evidently derives from the morphology of the ancient urban nucleus.