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Melito di Porto Salvo (Melito), Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italyi
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Melito di Porto Salvo (Melito)Municipality
Metropolitan City of Reggio CalabriaMetropolitan City
CalabriaRegion
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Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Melito di Porto Salvo9,663 (2014)
Caredia-Lacco669 (2014)
Prunella657 (2014)
Pentidattilo143 (2014)
Musuponiti132 (2014)
Other Languages:
French:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Ville métropolitaine de Reggio de Calabre (Province de Reggio de Calabre), Calabre, Italie
German:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Metropolitanstadt Reggio Calabria (Provinz Reggio Calabria), Kalabrien, Italien
Italian:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Città metropolitana di Reggio Calabria (Città metropolitana di Reggio di Calabria; Provincia di Reggio Calabria; Provincia di Reggio di Calabria), Calabria, Italia
Russian:
Мелито-ди-Порта-Сальво, Метрополийный город Реджо-ди-Калабрия (Провинция Реджо-ди-Калабрия), Калабрия, Италия
Simplified Chinese:
梅利托迪波尔托萨尔沃, 雷焦卡拉布里亞廣域市, 卡拉布里亚, 意大利
Spanish:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Ciudad metropolitana de Regio de Calabria (Provincia de Regio de Calabria), Calabria, Italia
Arabic:
ميليتو دي بورتو سالفو, قلورية, إيطاليا
Armenian:
Մելիտո դի Պորտա Սալվո, Կալաբրիա, Իտալիա
Basque:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italia
Bulgarian:
Мелито ди Порто Салво, Калабрия, Италия
Catalan:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Reggio de Calàbria, Calàbria, Itàlia
Cebuano:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italya
Central Bikol:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italya
Dutch:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Reggio Calabria, Calabrië, Italië
Esperanto:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Kalabrio, Italio
Farsi/Persian:
ملیتو دی پورتو سالوو, کالابریا, ایتالیا
Hungarian:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Olaszország
Interlingua:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italia
Japanese:
メーリト・ディ・ポルト・サルヴォ, カラブリア州, イタリア
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Мелито-ди-Порта-Сальво, Калабрия, Италия
Korean:
멜리토디포르토살보, 레조칼라브리아광역시, 칼라브리아주, 이탈리아
Latin:
Melitum, Urbs metropolitana Regina (Urbs metropolitana Reginensis; Urbs metropolitana Regitana; Urbs metropolitana Regii; Provincia Regina; Provincia Reginensis; Provincia Regitana; Provincia Regii), Bruttium (Calabria hodierna), Italia
Lombard:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italia
Malay:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Itali
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italia
Neapolitan:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calavria (Calàbbria), Italia
Occitan:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calàbria, Itàlia
Piedmontese:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italia
Polish:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Kalabria, Włochy
Portuguese:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calábria, Itália
Romanian:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italia
Serbian:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Калабрија, Италија
Serbo-Croatian:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Metropolitanski grad Reggio Calabria, Kalabrija, Italija
Sicilian:
Mèlitu, Cità metropulitana di Riggiu Calabbria (Pruvincia di Riggiu Calabbria), Calabbria (Calavria), Italia
South Azerbaijani:
ملیتو دی پورتو سالوو, ایتالیا
Swedish:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Kalabrien, Italien
Turkish:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, İtalya
Ukrainian:
Меліто-ді-Порто-Сальво, Реджо-Калабрія, Калабрія, Італія
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Melito di Porto Salvo, Kalabriya, Italiya
Volapük:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Litaliyän
Waray:
Melito di Porto Salvo, Calabria, Italya


A deposit of black hard lignite was discovered in 1876 in the neighbourhood of Melito (Melito di Porto Salvo). Transparent yellow-orange amber was also found at this deposit (Mantovani, 1877; Jervis, 1881, De Stefani, 1883).

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Reference: Mantovani P. (1877): Ligniti nella provincia di Reggio Calabria. Boll. R. Com. Geol. d'Italia, 8, 376-377; Jervis G. (1881): I tesori sotterranei dell'Italia. Vol. 3: Regioni delle Isole. Sardegna e Sicilia. Addenda ai precedenti volumi. Loescher, Torino, XXII+539 pp.

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Mantovani P. (1877): Ligniti nella provincia di Reggio Calabria. Boll. R. Com. Geol. d'Italia, 8, 376-377.
Jervis G. (1881): I tesori sotterranei dell'Italia. Vol. 3: Regioni delle Isole. Sardegna e Sicilia. Addenda ai precedenti volumi. Loescher, Torino, XXII+539 pp.
De Stefani C. (1883): Escursione scientifica nella Calabria (1877-78). Jejo, Montalto e Capo Vaticano. Rend. R. Acc. Naz. Lincei, Classe sci. fis. mat. nat., ser. 3, 18, 3-290.

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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_di_Porto_Salvo
Wikidata ID:Q54626
GeoNames ID:6541314


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