Ceglie Messapica
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Ceglie Messapica is a town, and comune, located in the province of Brindisi and region of Apulia, in southern Italy, in the traditional area called Salento.
Piazza Plebiscito at sunset
Panoramic view
Collegiate church
Baroque altar in the church of Saint Domenico
Pelasgians
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The name Pelasgians was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks. In general, "Pelasgia
Ceglie Messapica
…dry-stone walls, olive groves, vineyards, maquis shrub, ancient oak trees, cattle pastures and arable land. According to legend, it was founded by the Pelasgi, to whom belonged the megalithic structures known as specchie. After the arrival of Greek colonists around 700 BC, it received the name of Kailìa…
Plain of Thessaly, to the west of classical Pelasgiotis, but in the original range of the Pelasgians. The Pindus Mountains are visible in the background. The river is the Peneus.
Larisa of Argos.
Athenian Women Surprised by the Pelasgians of Lemnos, Jean Benner, c. 1876