Gallicianò (Γκαλιτσιανό, transliterated Gaḍḍicianò in Greek of Calabria) is a village of about 60 inhabitants, frazione of the comune of Condofuri, of the Città Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. Territory The center is at 621m above sea level, on the right bank of the river Amendolea. It falls into the Aspromonte National Park, lying itself on the southern slope of the Aspromonte. History The presence of man is attested in the valley of Amendolea since the Neolithic age. The first inhabited village of the area was Peripoli, a fortified city of Magno-Greek period. The earliest documentary evidence of Gallicianò, dating back to 1060, is found in the "Brebion of the Byzantine metropolitan church of Reggio Calabria", edited by Byzantinist André Guillou. In this document the center is referred to as "to galikianòn". Τhe name derives from Gallicum, a city close to modern Kilkis, from where the inhabitants recovered in southern Italy after the disasters that provoked Bulgarian raids. Another assumption is that it could derive from the Roman family Gallicius, which had land possessions (Gallicianum) in the area. Until the modern age, it was a possession of the fief of Amendolea, and followed the affairs of that village. It was a comune at the end of the '700-early' 800, later becoming a frazione of Condofuri. Severely damaged by the earthquake of 1783, it has maintained its primitive structure. The floods of 1951 and 1971 forced many people to leave the village. Language As with the other (now very few) villages of Calabria and Puglia that are part of the Greek linguistic minority in Italy, (which once covered large areas of southern Italy and Sicily), the question of the origin of the dialect has been debated among linguists. While it is certain that Greek was widely spoken in the times of the Greek colonies (at least along the coastal zones), it remains to be determined whether this form of the language has survived to modern day, which some clues point to, and as Gerhard Rohlfs argued or whether the dialect is a remnant of a re-introduction of Greek during the Byzantine Empire. Another theory is that the language survived in its ancient form but was greatly influenced by Byzantine medieval Greek. However, the language is in serious danger of extinction with few natural speakers left. Gallicianò is called "Acropoli della Magna Grecia", since it is the only village in which