From the people who in historical age lived in the south-center of Italy they came down the SANNITI.

These people did not constitute a unitary nation, but they were organized in territories very defined independently;  in the north of the Sannio there were the Marsi, Vestini, Peligni, etc;  to south of it there were the Lucani, from which detached the Bruzi;  to the west, in Campania, there were some people of the same origin, so as in the east, along the adriatic coast between the Abruzzi and the Molise there were the Frentani.

These populations, in the course of the time, found the way to connect each other due to the common political and economic interests;  as an example, in the IVth century b. C. a frightening sannitica alloy existed to contrast the growing Roman danger. The government of the SANNITI  was of republican type on democratic bases.  With the term of PAGUS it was identified a Territorial District that had a no centralised and democratic government.

In the first half of the IVth century SANNITI and Romans were the two greatest powers in Italy, both in expansion;  between the two people the crash was unavoidable.

In the 297 b.C. the SANNITI   succeeded to create a strong coalition with Etruschi, Galliums Senoni, Lucani.   In the battle of Sentino, of the 295, knewn as the " battle of the nations ", the fates of the peninsula were decided:  the losses of the allied were disastrous:  approximately 25,000 men found the dead. The SANNITI, alone, continued the war for other four years, but finally they were forced to ask the peace and to accept the alliance with Rome.

In the 91 b.C. it begun the war of the associates, who demanded to be considerated as Roman citizens, with the same rights. The Irpini, Frentani, Piceni, Marsi, Peligni, Vestini, Marrucini and Lucani joined to the SANNITI. It was created the "Italica Alloy" that choose Corfinio as first capital that, for the occasion, took the name of "Italy". Continuing the vicissitudes of the war, the capital was moved to Bojano and then to Isernia.

November the 1st of 82 b.C. marks the conclusion of the historical cycle of the SANNITI.  If the SANNITI had   the PAGUS as settling unit, with no centralized and democratics powers, the Roman created, indeed, a series of Town (capital cities of the several " provinces ") inside of which concentrated all the services. This organization determined serious administrative, economic and religious damages because the first real depopolation of the territory took place, with the centralization in the cities that represented the only point of reference for the political issues.

A tendency reversal begun only during the high Middle Age, when Benedictine monks faced the problem of giving to the territory one new organization and functionality, adapted to the new times.

After the last World War, the depopolation process has had one acceleration due to the emigration towards America and industrialized cities.

We believe that the new telematic world will represent one opportunity for a stable return to the mountain inside territories.

This is the reason why we choose the term of PAGUS. One hope and an augury.