Terra di Lavoro (Liburia in Latin) is the name of a historical region of Southern Italy.[1] It corresponds roughly to the modern southern Lazio and northern Campania and upper north west and west border area of Molise regions of Italy.
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In Italian the name means "Land of Work", but in fact derives from the ancient Liburia, a territory north of Aversa which took its name from the ancient Italic tribe of the Leborini.
With border changes over the centuries, it was a province of the Kingdom of Sicily and of the Kingdom of Naples, then of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and finally of the Kingdom of Italy. It was finally suppressed and divided among various provinces with the royal legislative decree n. 1 January 2, 1927, during the fascist regime.
Ormai è vicina la Terra di Lavoro, qualche branco di bufale, qualche mucchio di case tra piante di pomidoro,
èdere e povere palanche. Ogni tanto un fiumicello, a pelo del terreno, appare tra le branche
degli olmi carichi di viti, nero come uno scolo. Dentro, nel treno che corre mezzo vuoto, il gelo
—Pier Paolo Pasolini, La terra di Lavoro, in Le ceneri di Gramsci, Garzanti 1957
Terra di Lavoro in an old city plate of Casalattico
In 1863 the upper valley of the Volturno was separated to form the new province of Campobasso, while the comunes in the Valle Caudina became part of the provinces of Benevento and Avellino. In 1927 the province of Frosinone was established and the Terra di Lavoro was abolished, probably by personal order by Benito Mussolini. Its comunes were annexed to the province of Rome, Naples, Benevento, Campobasso and, after 1934, to the province of Littoria (modern Latina).
In 1945 the new province of Caserta was created, including comunes of the central Terra di Lavoro (including Aversa) previously part of the province of Naples, Benevento and Campobasso.
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