Evidence of this fact is in the original name of thge city "Reghinna major"; the etymological root "inna" is clearly of Etruscan derivation. Come trace the origins of Maiori to the Romans, as they also do for the entire Amalfi Coast, basing their opinion on the archeological findings which date back to the Roman Empire. Other historians instead maintain that Maiori was built in the ninth century by Prince Sicardo of Salerno. Maiori, a colony of Amalfi, seat of the Arsenals, the Admiralty, as well as the Customs house and the salt warehouse, resisted the Norman incursion for some time. But in 1268 Maiori was pillaged by the Pisans, eternal rivals of the Amalfi Republic; the Pisans, with numerous galley ships, destroyed and pillaged the entire Amalfi Coast. It was not long before Maiori established a flourishing mercantile marine and was able to build ships of great capacity. But in...