Nocera Inferiore

Nocera Inferiore is a city and comune in Campania, Italy, inside the province of Salerno, at the foot of Monte Albino, 20 kilometers east south east of Naples by rail. In the length earlier than the Roman supremacy in southern Italy, Nuceria Alfaterna, located between the present day Nocera Inferiore and Nocera Superiore, appears to be the leader city inside the valley of the river Sarnus, with Herculaneum, Pompeii, Stabiae and Surrentum all being based upon it.

Nuceria minted its very own cash, its cash bearing the head of the river god and advanced its very own alphabet referred to as nucerino which derived from the Etruscan language. It maintained its allegiance to Rome until 309 BC while it joined the revolted Samnites. In 308 BC, it repulsed a Roman try and land on the mouth of the Sarnus, but in 307 BC, it became besieged and surrendered. It acquired beneficial terms, and remained trustworthy to Rome even after Cannae. Hannibal reduced it in 216 BC by using hunger and destroyed the city. The population lower back while peace turned into restored.