Cilento is a mountainous area of ??Campania located in the province of Salerno, in the southern part of the region, and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Together with the Vallo di Diano in the past it was part of the Principality of Hither also called "western Lucania".
Until the creation of the Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park, the Cilento area was identified among the villages at the foot of Monte della Stella (1131 m) or belonging to the Barony of Cilento of the main branch of the Sanseverino, then Princes of Salerno, cis - Alentum on this side of the Alento river but seen from the capital Naples; then at the end of the 19th century the toponym attracted the area of ??the former barony of Novi (Vallo della Lucania and its neighbors) to the east of the River, so that area is distinguished from the entire national park and takes the name of "Cilento Antico".
For objective reasons it was decided to extend the Cilento to a large part of the coastal and southern internal province of Salerno. In ancient times Cilento was part of Lucania (together with the Vallo di Diano and the Gulf of Policastro).
It has remained a sign in the dialect with its accents spoken in the villages on the slopes of Monte Stella such as Omignano, Stella Cilento, Sessa Cilento, in the gastronomic traditions and in the toponymy (Vallo della Lucania, Atena Lucana).
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