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History of Andretta
Andretta is village of the High Irpinia in the province of Avellino. The land has an altitude that goes above sea level from the 550 meters to the 890 meters. It occupies a surface of approximately 4400 hectares of which 4170 they are agrarian and forest. There are approximately 3000 inhabitants.The history of Andretta is that one of Conza which constituted a city that represented 15a ecclesiastical province of the dioceses of Muro Lucano, Lacedonia, S. Angel of the Lombardi, Bisaccia and Monteverde. In 1981 the ecclesiastical province of Conza only became important for its geographic position. The first things that are known of Conza go back then to years 524 and 525 when it was occupied from the Goti, therefore from the Bizantini and from the Longobardi. In the 570 the Longobardi had to defend in Conza one of the accesses to the plains Pugliese and erected a great castle and called it Bisantium which is now Bisaccia and smaller one called Andretta in their language that corresponds to small fortress which is now Andretta. In the year 848 the ducato of Benevento to which Conza belonged when the Longobardi occupied it, came divided to meta' for one series of inner fights. The borders were therefore uncertain and changing and Andretta belonged to one province and then another.In the 1035 the Normanni tried to unite the Italian Meridonale and Andretta was comprised in the province of Conza. In the years that follow Andretta belonged to various feudi and has an interesting history also tied to Federico Barbarossa. During every century the feudi were obliged to pay of the taxes based on its value and these taxes were high and heavy for the wars and the goverment. Based on these taxes it is possible to calculate that in the 1275 Andretta had approximately 150 inhabitants and this number come down until 15 in 1290 for the famine, the diseases and the Sicialians that had much power in the town. During the period of feudalism, Andretta passed from a feudatario to the eversione of the feudalita'. This dark period of the history comes told in the book il Feudo ed it Comune di Andretta dalle origini all'Eversione della Feudalita by Francisco Scandone. In the 1901 Andretta counts approximately 4550 habitants. Therefore with the emigration this number comes down until 4000 in 1911 and oscillates until 1951, after that the population comes down until the levels now.
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