| Documents held in the Abbey of Cava dei Tirreni testify that Angri was inhabited at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Around 1600, the Doria Family took up ownership and desired that it become a Princedom, from which they became known as the Princes of Angri. Towards the middle of the XV century Angri broke away from Nocera, from an administrative viewpoint, therefore becoming an independent community (Universitas Terrae Angriae).
After the declaration of the Kingdom of Italy, this community saw progressive assertions of the middle class, who promoted a series of initiatives with the aim of improving buildings, increasing the income of the population and creating new methods of cultivation that would make the most out of the exceptionally fertile soil.
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