Greek origin of southern Italian city and town names.

[Sikeliot]

Many southern Italian town names are transliterated directly from Greek. I thought I'd take a list to compile some of them here. Let me know if I missed any.


Sicily:

Hennaion -- Enna
Messene -- Messina
Syrakoúsai -- Syracuse
Katáne -- Catania
Panormos -- Palermo
Akragas -- Agrigento
Drepanon -- Trapani
Tauromenion -- Taormina
Agyrion -- Agira


Calabria:

Rhégion -- Reggio Calabria
Croton -- Crotone
Katantheros -- Catanzaro


Apulia:

Barion/Varion -- Bari


Campania:

Neapolis -- Naples

[Peyrol]

don't forget also Ancona in the Marche and Adria in Veneto (both Siracusan colonies).

[Scholarios]

Aspromonte, Calabria(white mountain in combined Greek and Italian)

Kalimera, Apulia (Good Morning in Greek)

Gallipoli, Apulia (Beautiful City)

Galliciano, Calabria (Kallikon, nice place, beautiful place)

[Turkophagos]

Posillipo- Pausilypon (The Greeks first named this rocky, wooded height at the western end of the Bay of Naples Pausílypon, meaning "respite from worry".)

[Linet]

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[Scholarios]

Some fascinating history of Galliciano in Calabria, populated in the 10th Century by Greeks from Macedonia, fleeing strife in the Byzantine borderlands:

[alfieb]

Sicily -

Giardini-Naxos (Naxos)
Cattolica Eraclea (Heraclea Minor)
Cefalu (Cephalaedium)
Assoro (Assoros)
Noto (Neotum)
Sciacca (Thermae Selinontae)

among others.