LW-42 Apulia et Calabria

The combined province joined productive plains, pastoral districts, ports, and routes across the heel of Italy. Ancient Calabria in this title refers to southeastern districts associated with the Salentine peninsula, not simply the modern region at Italy’s toe. Brundisium’s position connected the peninsula with the Adriatic and eastern routes.

Farming, olive cultivation, livestock, textiles, and shipping supported provincial communities. Christian cities and local elites continued through changing political authority. Gothic war, Eastern Roman recovery, and later Lombard expansion fragmented the older jurisdiction, while ports and coastal routes retained strategic value within the empire’s remaining Italian network.