Contents. History Excavations begun in 1989 at Faraglioni have unearthed what was a large prehistoric village dating from the 14th to the 13th century BC. The foundations of some 300 stone-built houses were discovered, and the defensive walls of the settlement are among the strongest fortifications of any period known in Italy. It is believed that these early settlers came over from the.
In historic times, the island has been populated at least since about 1500 BC by peoples. In, the Island was named Osteodes (ossuary) in memory of the thousands of mutineers left there to die of hunger in the 4th century BC. The renamed the island Ustica, for burnt, for its black rocks.
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The island is also known locally as the 'black pearl'. In the 6th century, a community settled in the island, but was soon forced to move because of ongoing wars between. Attempts to colonize the island in the failed because of raids. In the mid-18th century, the island was settled by approximately 90 people from the island of, an island also located north of Sicily, but east of Ustica. They brought with them the patron saint of Lipari, who became the patron saint of Ustica as well. In the mid- to late 19th century and early 20th century, as the population of the island grew too large, hundreds of Ustican families emigrated to the United States. Many of these families settled in and surrounding areas, where there are today thousands of descendants whose ties remain strong to Ustica.
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A smaller number of families settled in San Jose and San Francisco, in New York, and in Massachusetts. Fascist prison island During the years in Italy and until the 1950s, Ustica was used as an island prison.
Banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals. Both and were sent there.
In the early 1940s Yugoslav war prisoners were crammed onto the island, and many of them died from malnutrition and tuberculosis. In the 1950s they were followed by suspected expelled from Sicily. On June 27, 1980, crashed into the sea off the island while en route to, killing all 81 people on board.
The event became known as the Ustica massacre. Environment. Ustica costa nord Tourism Ustica is particularly known for, with a number of diving schools established on the island. Recreational divers are attracted by the relatively deep dives, which are a feature of the island's volcanic geology.
Genealogy Because Ustica is a small island with limited resources, several waves of emigration have left it. In the mid nineteenth century, groups of Usticesi left for America, notably for New Orleans. Enough had arrived by the 1860s that, in the American Civil War, a regiment of Italians, including many Usticesi, fought for the Confederacy. Today, around 30,000 residents of New Orleans claim Usticese ancestry. Another wave of Usticesi left for the San Francisco bay area in the late nineteenth century. Many settled in the fertile Santa Clara Valley, whose mild Mediterranean climate was reminiscent of Ustica. At the turn of the twentieth century many Usticesi went to North Africa in search of land and employment.
The story of Usticese genealogy and emigration is thoroughly explored on the Ustica Genealogy web page cited below. See also. References.
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