LW-39 Campania

Late Campania inherited rich farming districts, ports, villas, workshops, and strong cultural traditions. It was a civil province within Italy, not a newly acquired overseas territory. Naples’s Greek inheritance, Capua’s historical prominence, and Puteoli’s maritime connections gave different cities distinct roles.

Economic and political conditions changed through late antiquity, but the region retained major productive and urban resources. Warfare during the Gothic reconquest and later Lombard pressure created different local allegiances. Naples’s continuing Eastern Roman connection illustrates how a single city’s political survival could differ from that of large parts of the surrounding former province.