Cittanova ( Italian for " New City " ) was born in 1618 , in the wake of the disastrous earthquake of 1616 , as the '' Nuovo Casale di Curtuladi '' ( " New Hamlet of Curtuladi " ) , then '' Casalnuovo '' upgraded to city status as '' Cittanova '' . The city was all but demolished in the great earthquake of 1783 that damaged Messina
great earthquake of 1783
1783 Calabrian earthquakes
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