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4 eras · 1077–2026 · 107 places

Salerno and the Cilento

Salerno, Vallo della Lucania, Eboli. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1077–1809 Norman and later Neapolitan kingdom — Principato Citeriore Archivio di Stato di Salerno · Antenati

Salerno declared independence from Benevento in 839 and fell to the Normans after 1077. Charles I of Anjou granted the Principality of Salerno in 1272, and the city was capital of the Principato Citeriore from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
1809–1815 Napoleonic Kingdom of Naples Archivio di Stato di Salerno · Antenati

Joseph Bonaparte and then Joachim Murat ruled Naples; Antenati dates the mainland civil registers from 1809.
1815–1861 Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Archivio di Stato di Salerno · Antenati

Many Salernitans joined Garibaldi in 1861.
1861–2026 Kingdom of Italy, then Republic Archivio di Stato di Salerno · Antenati

Operation Avalanche landed near Salerno in September 1943.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

See the whole span, 1077–2026, on the map →

The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.

107 places on this ground

258 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.

…and 198 more.

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