Ancient history

"Greeks &Turks founded Naples together"... Our ministries are sleeping

Blue Air is a Romanian low-cost airline. It is based in Bucharest. As of May 2016, it flies to 48 destinations in 12 European countries. In 2016 it carried 3.6 million passengers. Blue Air is the largest Romanian airline.

Unfortunately for historical truth, the Romanian company also flies to Naples, Italy. In its brochure, the company mentions features about the Italian city:

“The historic city of Naples was founded 3,000 years ago under the name Parthenope by Greek and Turkish merchants. Later the settlement was called Paleopolis and finally, in 475, Neapolis, the "new city".

“The city grew and expanded despite changes of foreign rulers and eventually became the capital of the most important independent state before the unification of Italy, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The rulers of this kingdom, the Bourbons, built a magnificent palace in nearby Caserta and filled the city with historical buildings of all kinds...

We would like to inform our Romanian friends that when Naples was founded, the Turks did not even exist in the wildest dreams of the most perverted brain on Earth. The area has been inhabited since the Neolithic era. At the end of the 2nd millennium BC the Greeks established a settlement there.

It was the time when the Eastern Mediterranean was shaken by the Sea Peoples. In the 10th century e.g. The Rhodians established a trading post there, naming the area Parthenope , in honor of the homonymous siren on the island where Castel d'Ovo was later built. That is why the inhabitants of the city are called "Parthenopei" to this day... If we are not mistaken, the name Parthenopei is not so Turkish.

The commercial station expanded, became a city and after the Second Colonization received the name Neapolis (new city). Also contrary to what the company says, the Spanish branch of the Bourbons was the last dynasty to reign in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, from which Normans, Germans, French and Spanish had previously passed, i.e. world and people.

Also the kingdom of the Two Sicilies was never the most important Italian state before Italian unification. The most important Italian state - and the strongest - was that of Savoy-Piedmont, whose arms united Italy in the 19th century.

This is informative... Perhaps, we say now, the ministries of Culture and Tourism should move, instead of dealing with the transfer of the "Runner" to Skopje and with survival amendments through the European Parliament?