Grumo Appula

Grumo Appula (Barese: Gréume; Latin: Grumum) is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. The town is a few kilometers inland from the port of Bari on the Adriatic Sea and it has a population of about 12,200. . It is part of the Alta Murgia National Park and was part of the mountain community of South-East of the Murgia Barese Physical geography The territory extends for about 81 km and part of it is included in the Alta Murgia National Park. The Lagopetto municipal pine forest is one of the attractions of the national park. The climatic and morphological characteristic allow the cultivation of olive groves and vineyards. Origins of the name The first element of the city's name is of uncertain origin: some trace it back to the Greek term drùmon, others to the Latin grumum, still others to a Messapian term with the same meaning as the Latin term. The second part of the name, which refers to the historical region of Apulia, whose added only in 1863 to disambiguate the municipality from Grumo Nevano. The City The city originated as an Apulian center in pre-Roman times. Pliny likely refers to the inhabitants of Grumo in the Naturalis Historia (105, III), where, listing the peoples of Calabria (as Puglia was called at the time), he mentions the "Grumbestini" alongside the "Palionenses" of Palo del Colle (Palion) and the "Butuntini" of Bitonto (Butuntum). Italic tombs and Greek and Roman coins have been found in its territory. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it became part of the Ostrogothic Kingdom, followed by the Byzantines, who briefly restored Italy to the Empire during Justinian's "restitutio" in the 6th century. Barely touched by Lombard rule, it later fell under Norman domination. During this...