Gizzeria, while being part of an area of \u200b\u200bconsiderable archaeological importance, it has ancient origins that are lost in the mists of time. The only definite information of the first constitution of the country do not go beyond the Byzantine period. Very controversial is the etymology of the name. The shape of Izar is, however, due to migration from Albania. In Norman times the name was Yussaria. Subsequently derived from IZAR Jzaria (1510), then in Jazzaria mutative or Jizzeria. The current name is in use since 1753. The history of the country after the destruction by the Saracens, which occurred late in the year one thousand, centered mainly on the greek monastery of St. Nicholas, a small cluster of a few people, mostly housed in barns and hovels. The monastery which stood on land belonging to the Knights of Malta, first had a life of its own, which lasted until Robert Guiscard, Latinized, the granted to the famous Benedictine abbey of S. Eufemia.
Around this community has developed, therefore, the first nucleus of Gizzeria, a country that did not have further development if it was not, reinvigorated by the contribution of Albanian refugees in southern Italy came to quell the revolt barons of Calabria. It was these soldiers to re-establish between 1448 and 1450 and numerous other countries Gizzeria the province of Catanzaro. Since the establishment in
"universitas", between 1558 and 1574, his story does not offer specific new elements for centuries. Only at the 700 seems to shake the country from its torpor by reserving a good reception to the wards of the revolutionary army, but then they change their mind in 1806 when it received a shot Gizzeria those Frenchmen who were to remain there for three years.
In 1848 it reported the presence of different gizzerioti dell'Angitola in the battle, during which they gave a good account of their value against the Bourbon troops. Even a cell Mazzini prospered in the country, driven mainly by Antonio and Alessandro Miceli Toja that are found among the thousands of Garibaldi landed at Marsala.
The remains of this historic route should be for religious buildings and palaces from the few upper-middle middle class, with some research of tracing, modules neoclassical ornamentation. Are of some interest to the Church of the Annunciation and the parish church of San Giovanni Battista.
Albanians had brought in new lands, together with language, their traditions, their customs, habits. The commonality with other families from other parts of Calabria, particularly after the two disastrous earthquakes of 1638 and 1783, trade, relationships, marriages with people from neighboring countries, changed dramatically the character of the population, paving the progressive disappearance of the idiom. Today the trace of the social fabric arbresh remains only in a few words and, with some variations, in the traditional costume of women, has now almost disappeared.
During Fascism, the territory of Gizzeria was significantly reduced in favor of the new municipality of S. Eufemia Lamezia, built by Mussolini after the reclamation of wetlands in the plain.
After World War II the population of Gizzeria, like all small towns of the 'interior of the region, has significantly decreased as a result of the massive migration to Europe, the Americas, Australia and the cities of the industrial triangle.
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