Umbriatico is a 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:...

and town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 in the province of Crotone

Province of Crotone

The Province of Crotone is a province in the Calabria region of Italy. It was created in 1996 out of part of the Province of Catanzaro. The capital is the city of Crotone.It has an area of 1,717 km², and a total population of 172,970...

, in 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....

, southern Italy

Italy

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. As of 2007 Umbriatico had an estimated population of 930.

History

Umbriatico was founded by the Oenotrians

Oenotrians

The Oenotrians were an ancient Italic people of unknown origin who inhabited a territory from Paestum to southern Calabria in southern Italy...

 before the arrival of the Greek colonists who founded the nearby Kroton

Kroton

* Kroton can refer to Croton, an Achaean colony from c. 710 BC on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto.* The Krotons is a serial in the science fiction television series Doctor Who and the name of the extraterrestrial race featured therein....

. During the Second Punic War

Second Punic War

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 it had a defensive wall, but this did not prevent the Romans

Ancient Rome

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 from storming it and massacring the population.

During the Middle Ages Umbriatico Cathedral was the seat of a bishopric, the Diocese of Umbriatico, until its abolition in 1818. The town is now a small agricultural and livestock-breeding centre.