Reggio Calabria

Meanings

1. A historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy.
2. A city and commune, the provincial capital of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy.
3. Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BCE thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs.

Etymology

From Italian Reggio Calabria, from the earlier Old Italian Reggio, from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion). The city became known as Reggio Calabria after the unification of Italy.