Conza della Campania (or Conza di Campania ; formerly called Compsa , commonly known as Conza ( Campanian : Cònze )) is a comune (municipality) and former Latin Catholic (arch)bishopric in the province of Avellino in the region of Campania in southern Italy .
5-776: Compsa was an ancient city of the Hirpini occupied by the Carthaginian conqueror Hannibal in 216 BC. During the Early Middle Ages , it was a gastaldate in the Principality of Salerno . In 973, the gastald (city-based Lombard royal domain district administrator and judge) Landulf seized the principality. Later, it belonged to the Balvano , the Gesualdo , and the Mirelli families. The town
10-446: The ancient manuscripts to be corrupt. Thus the usual identification of the site of Milo's death with Cassano allo Ionio on the Gulf of Taranto must be incorrect. In imperial times, as inscriptions show, it was a municipium , but it lay far from any of the main highways. The ruins of the ancient city were studied again, when they reappeared after the destruction of the modern town in
15-600: The boundary of Lucania and not far from that of Apulia , on a ridge 609 m above sea level. It was betrayed to Hannibal in 216 BC after the defeat of Cannae , but recaptured two years later. It was probably occupied by Sulla in 89 BC, and was the scene of the death of Titus Annius Milo in 48 BC. Most modern sources, for example Hülsen in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie (Stuttgart, 1901, iv. 797), refer Caesar 's Commentarii de Bello Civili (iii. 22) and Pliny 's Naturalis Historiæ to this place, supposing
20-559: The earthquake of 1980 that destroyed the old town. The main church is the Concattedrale (co- cathedral ) of S. Maria Assunta. Other sights include the archaeological area of Compsa and the natural oasis of Lake Conza, an artificial basin on the Ofanto river. Compsa Compsa (modern Conza della Campania ) was an ancient city of the Hirpini , near the sources of the Aufidus , on
25-484: Was almost completely destroyed by the 1980 Irpinia earthquake . It was rebuilt in the area called Piano delle Briglie , 8 km (5 mi) from the former center. Conza della Campania is now a turistic attraction, since it can count among its territory the WWF Oasi, including the lake of Conza and the area outside. Conza della Campania has also about 10,000 visitors a year at its Archeological site, Compsa, discovered after
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