termula

Updated: May 4, 2025

They sacked and burnt wherever they went; the sea-board of the Tyrrhenian, Ionian and Adriatic was depopulated of its inhabitants, who fled inland; towns and villages vanished from the face of the earth, and the richly cultivated land became a desert; they took 17,000 prisoners from Reggio on a single occasion 13,000 from Termula; they reduced Matera to such distress, that a mother is said to have slaughtered and devoured her own child.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria