Roghudi ( el, label=
Calabrian Greek
The Calabrian dialect of Greek, or [comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria in the
Italian region
Calabria
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, located about southwest of
Catanzaro and about southeast of
Reggio Calabria
Reggio di Calabria ( scn, label= Southern Calabrian, Riggiu; el, label= Calabrian Greek, Ρήγι, Rìji), usually referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria. It has an estimated popul ...
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It consists of two main centers separated by some , the first (Roghudi Nuovo, meaning "new Roghudi" and housing the communal seat) is an enclave in the communal territory of
Melito di Porto Salvo, near the
Ionian Sea
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coast; the second, Roghudi Vecchio, is located in the mainland at the foot of the
Aspromonte
The Aspromonte is a mountain massif in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria ( Calabria, southern Italy). The literal translation of the name means "rough mountain". But for others the name more likely is related to the Greek word Aspros ( ...
. Roghudi Nuovo was founded in 1973 after two consecutive floods had made Roghudi Vecchio uninhabitable.
Roghudi is one of the places where the
Greek–Calabrian dialect
The Calabrian dialect of Greek, or [Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia (, ; , , grc, Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, ', it, Magna Grecia) was the name given by the Romans to the coastal areas of Southern Italy in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; the ...](_blank)
in Southern Italy and Sicily.
References
External links
Official website
Cities and towns in Calabria
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