now PUGLIA, a territory of Italy, bordering on the Adriatic, and extending from the river Brento to Tarentum in length, and from the Adriatic to the Lucani in breadth. Apuli the people (Horace); divided into the Apulia Daunia, now called Puglia Piana or the Capitanata; and into the Apulia Peucetia, now Terra di Bari, (Pliny, Ptolemy). Apulia abounded in sheep, which yielded the finest wool (Martial). It is now the east side of the kingdom of Naples.