Terra di Lavoro

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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.

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