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Don't try counting the olive trees - you'll lose count! Supposedly there are 50 million olive trees in Puglia! Just a little less than the February 2007 population estimate - 59206382. Puglia accounts for 40% of the olive oil production in Italy.
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| The name Apulia was given to the region by Romans when it made a part of the Roman empire
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| Griko? Sounds Greek to you? It is. South of Lecce, towards the Otranto area, many local people still speak the dialect of the area. Griko is a form of Ancient Greek. |
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| Just over 4 million in 2004, less than 10% of the total population of Italy.
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