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The name of Gagliano has Latin origins and probably means that this land belonged to the roman soldier Gallo. However, another more realistic reconstruction dates the first settlement back to the II century b.C., after the destruction of some adjacent hamlets. From 553 b.C. to the XI century, Gagliano passed from under Byzantium’s rule to that of the Normans. The combination of Greek and Latin rites that had established here ceased in 1600, with the death of the last Greek protopopes. It was a feud of Isolada da Nocera under the Angevins and then it was ruled by Guglielmo Brunella and by , Teodorico di Santo Blasio until, in 1485, Ferdinand of Aragon granted it to the Scanderberg’s from Castro. A member of this family, Giovanni, excelled in the battle of Lepanto in 1571 and his descendants lived in the castle of Gagliano. In XVII century, the feud passed to Laura Guarini, who held it until 1806.