a subdivision of ancient Italy. It had Lachania on the south, Samnium on the west, the river Tiberinus on the north, and the Adriatic on the east. It formed a part of the Japygia of the early Greeks. It was successively under the Romans, the Goths, the Lombards, and the Saracens. The Normans of Sicily conquered it, and it now, as Puglia, forms the Neapolitan provinces of Capitanata, Bari, and Otranto.