page_title: Province of Foggia
section_title: Population centers
hierarchical_section_title: Province of Foggia / Population / Population centers
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture taken in w:de:Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf before Duisburg summer meetup 2010. Deutsch: Im w:de:Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf vor dem Duisburger Sommertreff 2010 aufgenommenes Foto. Daunisch-subgeometrischer Krug mit großem Mündungsteller. Irdenware mit Oxidmalerei, 550–400 vor Christus.
context_page_description: The Province of Foggia is a province in the Apulia region of southern Italy.
  This province is also known as Daunia or else Capitanata, originally Catapanata, because during the Middle Ages it was governed by a catepan, as part of the Catepanate of Italy. Its capital is the city of Foggia.
context_section_description: Main centers in the province are:
  Foggia, the capital and native city of opera composer Umberto Giordano.
  San Severo, the old capital and city of comics artist Andrea Pazienza.
  San Giovanni Rotondo, home of Padre Pio and place of the church devoted to him.
  Manfredonia and Vieste archiepiscopal see of Apulia
  Vieste, Mattinata and Peschici, notable sea-side resorts
  Lucera, residence of Frederick II at the beginning of the 13th century. During the Middle-Ages it was the most important town of the province.
  Other centers of interest are:
  Cerignola, native town of philologist Nicola Zingarelli founder of the Zingarelli Italian dictionary and syndicalist Giuseppe Di Vittorio
  Torremaggiore, native town of Nicola Sacco
  Troia, 10th century cathedral
  Margherita di Savoia, major center of salt production (and will be one of the three municipalities leaving the province in 2009 to form the new Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani)
  Celle di San Vito and Faeto  two towns where an extremely rare dialect of the Franco-Provençal language has been spoken since the 14th century. The dialect, Cigliaje and Faetar, is only spoken by 1,400 people in the world.
caption: Daunian earthenware pot, 550–400 BC, found in Foggia.
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