Afragola

Afragola is a city and comune within the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy. It is one of the 100 biggest Italian cities. The communal territory, measuring 18 square kilometres, borders the municipalities of Acerra, Casalnuovo di Napoli, Caivano, Cardito and Casoria, forming a single metropolitan location of around 100,000 inhabitants. The comune of Afragola is one of the most densely populated of the country. The location of modern-day Afragola was already settled in ancient instances by using the Samnites. Older remains, belonging to an early Bronze Age agreement buried by way of a Vesuvius eruption inside the 19th century BC, had been located in 2005.

The city turned into founded best inside the Middle Ages: in line with a way of life now diagnosed as false, in 1140 by means of Roger II of Sicily, who assigned the land to its veterans. It is much more likely that the metropolis stemmed from the merger of numerous villages and churches already present right here. The territory became originally held by using the archbishops of Naples, however from 1576 it changed into without delay subjected, as an independent community, to the Kings of Naples.