BASILICATA, a province of the kingdom of Naples. It is bounded on the north by Capitanata, on the north-east by Bari and Otranto, on the east by the Bay of Taranto, on the south by Calabria, on the south-west by the Gulf of Policastro, and on the west by Principato-Ultiore. It extends 3481 square miles over a country including a great part of the Appennines. The population amounts to 378,160 persons, who speak the Calabrian dialect. The capital of the province is Potenza.