Malvito
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- For the sculptor, see Tommaso MalvitoTommaso MalvitoTommaso Malvito was an Italian sculptor.Little is known about his life. He was born in Como in the late 15th century, and was a pupil of the Milanese Pietro di Martino...
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Malvito is a town and comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
in the province of Cosenza
Cosenza
Cosenza is a city in southern Italy, located at the confluence of two historic rivers: the Busento and the Crathis. The municipal population is of around 70,000; the urban area, however, counts over 260,000 inhabitants...
in the Calabria
Calabria
Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula. The capital city of Calabria is Catanzaro....
region of southern Italy
Italy
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Its name derives from the Latin word for mallow
Malva
Malva is a genus of about 25–30 species of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow. The genus is widespread throughout the temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of...
, malvetum.
Its population was severely reduced in the 50's and 60's due to mass migration to USA, Australia, Argentina and Canada.