Apulia

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Apulia is a region in southeastern Italy forming the heel of the Italian "boot," known for its ancient Greek heritage, whitewashed hill towns, olive groves, and Adriatic coastline.

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Observed surface forms (4)

Surface form Occurrences
Puglia 2
Salento Peninsula 2
Region of Apulia 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf administrative territorial entity
region of Italy
capital Bari
coatOfArms Coat of arms of Apulia
contains Gargano Peninsula
Murge plateau
Apulia self-linksurface differs
surface form: Salento Peninsula
containsAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Metropolitan City of Bari
Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani
Province of Brindisi
Province of Foggia
Province of Lecce
Province of Taranto
country Italy
executiveBody Regional Government of Apulia
flag Flag of Apulia
forms heel of the Italian boot
hasBorderWith Basilicata
Campania
Molise
hasCoastlineOn Adriatic Sea
Ionian Sea
hasHeritage ancient Greek heritage
hasRegionalLanguage Apulian dialects of Neapolitan
Arbëresh
surface form: Arbëreshë Albanian

Franco-Provençal (Arpitan)
surface form: Franco-Provençal (Faetar)

Griko
Salentino dialect
headOfGovernment President of Apulia
historicalRegion Magna Graecia
knownFor Adriatic coastline
baroque architecture of Lecce
olive groves
olive oil production
trulli houses of Alberobello
whitewashed hill towns
wine production
largestCity Bari
legislativeBody Regional Council of Apulia
locatedIn Italian Peninsula
Southern Italy
surface form: southeastern Italy
locatedInTimeZone Central European Summer Time
Central European Time
locatedOn Adriatic Sea
Ionian Sea
namedAfter ancient region of Apulia
officialLanguage Italian language
surface form: Italian
partOf Italian Republic
Southern Italy
surface form: Mezzogiorno

Referenced by (35)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Horatius birthRegion Apulia
Lucania borderedBy Apulia
Campania borders Apulia
this entity surface form: Puglia
Molise borders Apulia
Samnium borders Apulia
Basilicata bordersWith Apulia
this entity surface form: Puglia
Apulia contains Apulia self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Salento Peninsula
Southern Italy contains Apulia
this entity surface form: Salento Peninsula
Otranto countrySubdivision Apulia
this entity surface form: Region of Apulia
Southern Italy hasPart Apulia
ancient Italy hasPart Apulia
Bari isCapitalOf Apulia
Bari locatedIn Apulia
subject surface form: Castellaneta
subject surface form: Castellaneta
this entity surface form: Salento peninsula
Otranto locatedIn Apulia
Battle of Cannae location Apulia
Samnites modernLocation Apulia
subject surface form: Castellaneta
Via Appia passesThrough Apulia
Hauteville dynasty region Apulia
Sabellian spokenIn Apulia