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Salento

English

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Etymology

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Italian Salento, from Salentino dialect Salentu, of uncertain origin, possibly from Latin salum (“(surrounded by) sea”).

Proper noun

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Salento

  1. A small peninsula at the south-eastern tip of Italy, sometimes described as the "heel"; principal cities are Lecce and Otranto.

References

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  • Mario Cosmai, Antichi toponimi di Puglia e Basilicata, Levante, 1991.

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