Tricarico, known as "città arabo-normanna (Arabic-Norman town) is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Lucania (or Basilicata). It has a population of 6,080 people. It still has amongst the best preserved medieval town centres in Lucania. Origins The origin of its name is, up to now, unknown but some believe the name derives from Greek word treis = three and akros, akris = summit, mount, apex, that is "cities of the three mounts". History Although of ancient origin, the first news documented about the town was in the 849, when the commune was a "longobarda" county included in the "gastaldato" of Salerno. After this period was an arabic town until the secon half of the 900. In the 968 was under the empire of Bisanzio and then, in the 1048, became a Norman fortified town.In the fiftheenth century there was a Jewis community. Distant cultures, also from a religious point of view have f