Contursi Terme

Contursi Terme is a village and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.

No secure identification of Contursi Terme, where ancient remains confirm a settlement at the confluence of the Tanagro with the Sele, is likely. The Roman Ursentum noted in Pliny's Natural History , is more usually identified with Caggiano. The local historian A. Filomarino, based on etymologies of toponyms, placed the commune's origins as early as the fourth century AD, the result of efforts by the inhabitants of the former Saginara and Contursi to fortify a site that was destroyed by Alaric's Goths at the end of the fourth century. Under the Lombards it appears to have belonged to the gastaldate of Conza, when a fortress was built in 840 by Orso, count of Conza, from whom the stronghold probably took its name Castrum comitis Ursi, the "castle of count Orso") Orso took the part of his kinsman Siconulf of Salerno in internecine wars with Radelchis I of Benevento, who had been a former gastaldo of Conza.

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