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Amalfi appears to have been founded by a Roman family bound for Constantinople. When their ship ran aground on a nearby shore, they settled the area, naming it Melphes, which today is a town called Melfi. A few years later, they moved further north, to the present day site of Amalfi, and established a new town, which they called A Melphes – hence, Amalfi. The strategic position in which Amalfi stood made the small agglomeration acquire considerable importance during the struggle between the Byzantines and the Lombards.
Amalfi appears to have been founded by a Roman family bound for Constantinople. When their ship ran aground on a nearby shore, they settled the area, naming it Melphes, which today is a town called Melfi. A few years later, they moved further north, to the present day site of Amalfi, and established a new town, which they called A Melphes – hence, Amalfi. The strategic position in which Amalfi stood made the small agglomeration acquire considerable importance during the struggle between the Byzantines and the Lombards.
The mercantile activity of Longobard Salerno has never been at the pace of the Amalfi enterprise, particularly accustomed to navigation even over long distances. From the establishment of the colony of merchants in Antioch around the end of the 8th century, we find clear signs of an already fervent Amalfi commercial activity in the first half of the following century, only to see it grow exponentially in the second half of the 10th when economic relations are consolidated. both with the Biyzantine East and with the Arab territories of North Africa.
The mercantile activity of Longobard Salerno has never been at the pace of the Amalfi enterprise, particularly accustomed to navigation even over long distances. From the establishment of the colony of merchants in Antioch around the end of the 8th century, we find clear signs of an already fervent Amalfi commercial activity in the first half of the following century, only to see it grow exponentially in the second half of the 10th when economic relations are consolidated. both with the Biyzantine East and with the Arab territories of North Africa.
Around 836 the trade conducted by Amalfi was in full expansion and reached the territories of southern Italy up to Sicily and those of Mediterranean Africa, which had been under the dominion of the Arabs for a long time.
Around 836 the trade conducted by Amalfi was in full expansion and reached the territories of southern Italy up to Sicily and those of Mediterranean Africa, which had been under the dominion of the Arabs for a long time.
At the origin of the Amalfitani district in the west area of early medieval Salerno is the sacking perpetrated in 838 AD by Prince Sicardo in the Byzantine Duchy of Amalfi. The Amalfi people were forcibly transferred to Salerno and forced to forge ties of consanguinity with the Longobards of Salerno, in the hope of favoring the economic and commercial take-off of the city, of inserting it in the traffic circuit managed by the Amalfitans themselves in the Mediterranean and, probably, to weaken the contingent of men that Amalfi had at its disposal to defend itself from the continuous attempts of conquest made by the Longobards of Salerno. Sicardo had to order his men almost a mass 'deportation' against the "Atranenses", as they are remembered in the notarial deeds of the 10th and 11th centuries, wishing to gain the wealth and wisdom of the Amalfitans in Salerno and the Duchy of Benevento. The vicus Sancte Trophimenae, built in the western area of the civitas nova, had to have a quadrangular planimetric shape, bordered to the north by the church of the Madonna della Lama and by the current Via T. Tasso, to the south by the Porta Catena, to the east by the Porta Rateprandi and to the west from the church of Santa Trofimena. The settlement controlled in this way at least two of the most important road routes of medieval Salerno, to the north the current via Tasso which, probably, follows the path of one of the decumani of the ancient Roman "castrum" and throughout the medieval age remains one of the most popular audiences; and to the south the via carraria, a paved road, perhaps already existing in ancient times and intended for the passage of the wagons that from the port transferred goods to the city and to the market. The neighborhood gravitated around two of the city gates, Porta Catena and Porta Rateprandi, not far from the vicus Iudeorum, with which it constituted the commercial soul of medieval Salerno. If, in fact, the Atranenses deserved the unusual appellation of sailors-peasants, preferring to invest the proceeds of their commercial activities in the purchase of land or by exchanging mainly agricultural products, the Jews mainly dealt with the crafts sector.
At the origin of the Amalfitani district in the west area of early medieval Salerno is the sacking perpetrated in 838 AD by Prince Sicardo in the Byzantine Duchy of Amalfi. The Amalfi people were forcibly transferred to Salerno and forced to forge ties of consanguinity with the Longobards of Salerno, in the hope of favoring the economic and commercial take-off of the city, of inserting it in the traffic circuit managed by the Amalfitans themselves in the Mediterranean and, probably, to weaken the contingent of men that Amalfi had at its disposal to defend itself from the continuous attempts of conquest made by the Longobards of Salerno. Sicardo had to order his men almost a mass 'deportation' against the "Atranenses", as they are remembered in the notarial deeds of the 10th and 11th centuries, wishing to gain the wealth and wisdom of the Amalfitans in Salerno and the Duchy of Benevento. The vicus Sancte Trophimenae, built in the western area of the civitas nova, had to have a quadrangular planimetric shape, bordered to the north by the church of the Madonna della Lama and by the current Via T. Tasso, to the south by the Porta Catena, to the east by the Porta Rateprandi and to the west from the church of Santa Trofimena. The settlement controlled in this way at least two of the most important road routes of medieval Salerno, to the north the current via Tasso which, probably, follows the path of one of the decumani of the ancient Roman "castrum" and throughout the medieval age remains one of the most popular audiences; and to the south the via carraria, a paved road, perhaps already existing in ancient times and intended for the passage of the wagons that from the port transferred goods to the city and to the market. The neighborhood gravitated around two of the city gates, Porta Catena and Porta Rateprandi, not far from the vicus Iudeorum, with which it constituted the commercial soul of medieval Salerno. If, in fact, the Atranenses deserved the unusual appellation of sailors-peasants, preferring to invest the proceeds of their commercial activities in the purchase of land or by exchanging mainly agricultural products, the Jews mainly dealt with the crafts sector.
Sicardo died assassinated in the summer of 839 by a conspiracy led by the Amalfitans (who thus took back the Duchy, after having put Salerno on fire) and by the treasurer Radelchi, who proclaimed himself prince.
Sicardo died assassinated in the summer of 839 by a conspiracy led by the Amalfitans (who thus took back the Duchy, after having put Salerno on fire) and by the treasurer Radelchi, who proclaimed himself prince.
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