Cosenza

Cosenza, a town of Italy, capital of the province of the same name, formerly called Calabria Citeriore. It is situated 12 miles E. of the Mediterranean, and 262 SE. of Naples by rail, in a mountain-closed valley at the confluence of the Crati and the Busento, and suffers in summer from malaria. It is the seat of an archbishop, and has a cathedral, a fine court-house, and trade in oil, wine, silk, hemp, grain, earthenware, and iron and steel wares. Pop. 16,686. The ancient Consentia, a city of the Bruttii, was captured by the Carthaginian general, Himilco, and was forced to surrender (204 B.C.) to the Romans, who afterwards colonised it. Alaric (q.v.) died here, 410 A.D.