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TERRONI INDEX
TERRONI INDEX: JUST THE TOE (CALABRIA)
Percentage of world’s supply of Bergamot oranges grown in Calabria: 80% Number of years that the Amarelli family have been growing liquorice plants in Calabria: 283 Number of roads in Calabria in 1862, the year Italy was unified: 1 Number of railways: 0
Italy’s ranking of countries who provided Canada with the most immigrants in the ‘50s and ‘60s: 2 (after the British Isles)
Year that Calabria starting making ‘nduja, sausage paste made of pork, trimmings and dried red chili peppers: circa 1500
Number of Italians who left Italy between 1861 and WWI: 9 million Percentage of those immigrants who were from the south, including Calabria: 70%
Cosenza
Percentage of post-war Canadian immigrants who were Italian: 65%
Crotone
Percentage of Woodbridge’s population who are Italian: 50% (Canada’s ranking of largest population of Italians outside of the boot: 6) Calories in a cipolla rossa di Tropea, the famous sweet red onion that carries an Indicazione Geografica Protetta (IGP) status and has its own festival every August: 26
Tropea
Catanzaro
Vibo Valentia
San Giorgio Morgeto
Population of San Giorgio Morgeto, a tiny Calabrian town after which a Terroni pizza is named: 3,158 Number of people in San Giorgio Morgeto with the town’s most popular surname, Mammoliti: 129 Number of Calabrians with the most popular surname in the region, Romeo: 7,449
Reggio Di Calabria
Year that Gianni Versace was born in Calabrian province of Reggio Calabria: 1946
Total population of Calabria: 1.96 million