The history of Polla comes from the dawn of times and it becomes really difficult, for anybody wants to venture into the long and deep tunnel of the past times, to establish the starting date. Neglecting, at least for now, the told history, let us try instead to analyze an aspect, important in the historiography of a...
About the origin of Pertosa, there is not sure information. Its name comes from the term of archaic dialect Petrusu, which refers to the opening of the Angel’s Caves. From an historical point of view, the roots of the village Petrusu would stay in the ancient settlement of ‘Consinum’, an inhabited center testified by...
Probably, the term Taurasi derives from *taur – ‘mount’, but we cannot exclude the meaning of the latin taurus ‘bull’, maybe in the totemic sense. The name, of clear Oscan-Sabellian origin, refers to the bull, mythical animal, leader of the Samnitic tribe of the Taurasini (that is ‘mountain people’), who, arrived from...
