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Jewish Neighbourhoods in Southern Italy

Italian Region	Southern Italian cities, small towns, villages with their Hebrew districts
Sicily	Palermo: Meschita and Guzzetta. In the Arab Balarm these two sites were called Harat-Al-Yahud (The Jewish Ward). · Odonyms: Piazza Croce dei Vespri, Piazza della Borsa, Vicolo della Meschita, Piazzetta della Meschita, Vicolo degli Agonizzanti, Via Calderai, Via Mastrangelo, Via Giardinaccio, Via del Ponticello, Via Bernabei, Via San Cristoforo, Vicolo Corpora, Via Lampionelli, Via Divisi. · Visible traces: Church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (ex-synagogue), Arco dei Cartai, Arco della Meschita. Caccamo Castelbuono Castronovo di Sicilia Polizzi Generosa Termini Imerese: Celtigene. Messina: Tirone and Paraporto. Castroreale San Marco d'Alunzio: Moschita. Limina Taormina: Giudecca. Savoca: Visible traces: the Ruins of an old Synagogue . Milazzo: Borgo Vecchio. Odonyms: Via Sinagoga. Lipari Catania: Giudecca Soprana, Giudecca Sottana, Piano di Giacobbe Caltagirone: San Giuliano, Miracoli. · Odonyms: Via Madonna della Stella - Via Judeca. Castiglione di Sicilia Mineo: Contrada Rabbato. · Odonyms: Via Ebrei Paternò Randazzo:Santa Maria alla Iudeca Syracuse: Giudecca, San Giovanni delle Grotte Pelopee. Lentini:Serre di San Pietro or Serre della Scalderia, Judeca. Palazzolo Acreide Rosolini Cittadella Maccari Noto: Judaica Parva (from Latin Parva = The Little) Enna: Iudeca. Visible traces: In this area the Church of Saint Mark and the Nunnery of the Discalced Carmelites took the place of the ancient city's Synagogue. Agira Calascibetta Piazza Armerina: Piano Canali. Caltanissetta: Zingari (=Gypsies). Gela Sofiana Ragusa: La Chancata. Caucana Comiso Modica: Cartellone. Historical events: On 15 August 1474, the Christian community of Modica wreaked a brutal havoc on the Jewish dwellers of Cartellone, the so-called "Strage dell'Assunta". This episode has been the first and most horrible antisemitic massacre to the detriment of the Sicilian Israelites. During the evening of Assumption's Day, with a single collective raptus numberless citizens (fomented by fanatic Catholic preachers) slaughtered about 360 innocents causing a total and fierce devastation. The incitement that echoed through the streets was: "Hurrah for Mary! Death to the Jews!" (Viva Maria! Morte ai Judey!) Santa Croce Camerina Scicli Agrigento: Terra Vecchia Bivona Caltabellotta Cammarata Sciacca: Cadda Siculiana Trapani: Giudecca and Santa Margherita Alcamo: Giudecca di San Calogero Odonyms:Via Giacomo Matteotti (once named Via Sinagoga) Erice: Rabato Odonyms: Via Giudaica - Vicolo Giudaica Marsala Mazara del Vallo: Jureca Mozia Salemi
Calabria	Reggio: Giudecca. · Odonyms: Via Giudecca - Via Osanna - Via Aschenez (=Ashkenaz). Catanzaro: Cafarone Cosenza: Giudeca or Iudaica Nicotera: Musconà and Timpone Gerace Montalto Altomonte Monteleone Castrovillari Bisignano Seminara Acri Santa Severina: Iudea Nicastro Crotone Rossano Corigliano
Campania	Naples: Monterone and San Marcellino, Patrizzano, Giudecca Vecchia di Forcella, Giudecca Grande di Portanova, Giudechella del Porto. Sorrento Amalfi Salerno: Giudecca
Basilicata	Melfi
Apulia	Bari Trani: Giudecca or La Giudea, Porta Antica and Scolanova Brindisi: Rione Giudea Oria: Rione Giudea Nardò Taranto
Sardinia	Cagliari: Giudaria di Castello Oristano Alghero

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