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The word Pòppito derives from the Latin "Post Oppidum" which means "outside the walls of the town".
In Salento the term, today, refers to rustic, boorish people and to strangers or foreigners.
When the Romans conquered the region entering Brindisium –Porta d’Oriente- in 267 BC, Pòppito was used to refer to someone who lived outside the town.
Today it is used by the inhabitants of the so called North Salento: Brindisi, Taranto and Lecce when they refer to the inhabitants of the extreme south of the Salento.
