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Origin of the Name:
Before being conquered by the Romans, this Region was called Lucania. Subsequently with the August emperor who united it with Bruttium, actually Calabria, it started to be called Basilicata, which derives from the Greek basilikos (governor and prince). Later with the conquest of the Norman ones the name remained and the actual confinements remained the same. In the period that has gone since 1932 at 1947 the Region was renamed Lucania officially. Today the name has returned to Basilicata, but the inhabitants are called Lucani.
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