Sant'Agata de' Goti | |
Official Name: | Comune di Sant'Agata de' Goti |
Coordinates: | 41.0833°N 44°W |
Region: | Campania |
Province: | Province of Benevento (BN) |
Mayor: | Salvatore Riccio |
Area Total Km2: | 62.9 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 11216 |
Population As Of: | 1 January 2016 |
Population Demonym: | Santagatesi |
Elevation M: | 156 |
Saint: | St. Alphonsus Liguori |
Day: | August 1 |
Postal Code: | 82019 |
Area Code: | 0823 |
Sant'Agata de' Goti is a comune (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about northeast of Naples and about west of Benevento near the Monte Taburno.
Sant'Agata is not far from the ancient Samnite town of Saticula.
The "Goths" (Italian: Goti) part of the town's name does not derive from the (Ostro) Gothic domination of Italy (5th–6th centuries), but from the noble Gascon De Goth family, who held it in the 14th century.