Reggio Calabria

Meaning

Proper Noun

• historical province/and/metcity Calabria (region) Italy (country) .
• city/and/commune/provincial capital Reggio Calabria (province) Calabria (region) Italy (country) .
• Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BC thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs

Origin

• From Italian Reggio Calabria, Old Italian Reggio from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον.