 Casacalenda

Casacalenda (Molisan dialect Casacalenna; Calena) is a "comune" (municipality) in the Province of Campobasso in the Italian region Molise, located about northeast of Campobasso.The Greek historian Polybius mentions a battle in 217 BC between the Roman army, based in Kalene, and Hannibal, based in Gerione (now a hamlet of Casacalenda).