Venticano? previous name or history

[didozo]

Hello
Was Venticano, Benevento, Campania known by another name like (apoligize for my spelling) Camplione or something like that?

Diana

[Squigy]

Hello
Was Venticano, Benevento, Campania known by another name like (apoligize for my spelling) Camplione or something like that?

Diana

Perhaps you mean Venticano in the Avellino province (it borders Benevento):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venticano

It seems before 1948 it was part of the town of Pietradefusi, before it became it's own comune:

http://www.comune.venticano.av.it/citta/storia.php

No town by the name of Camplione exists in Italy today, and I can find no evidence to say it ever did.

[didozo]

Thank you for this history and the link. Diana