Cappadocia ( In Marsican Dialect: Cappadoza[3])is a comune and town with approximately 550 inhabitants[4] in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

The area, collected in the Valley of The Nerfa, between the south-ovest versant of the Caresolain Mountains (Padiglione and Aurunzo), and it marks the border between Abruzzo and Lazio, in the centre of the Appenino Centrale Abbruzzese.

[5] In the comune are included the frazione of Petrella Liri, Verrechie and the touristic destination of Camporotondo, collocated on the Cesca Mountains, and the Homonym ski station.

[7] In ancient times, Aequi and Marsi lived in the region, before the Roman occupation, but there are nearly zero archeological testimonials from the area[8] The first historical document, where Cappadocia is mentioned[8][9] is the Papal bull of 1158 of Pope Clement III, who nominates the Churches of Saint Blaise and Margaret the Virgin[10] Later, it became part of the Albe county, and then of the Duchy of Tagliacozzo, both fiefs of the "Regno Di Napoli", until its annexion by Kingdom of Italy in 1860.

[11][12] Its inhabitants were mainly occupied by the Transhumance of the Ager Romanus[13] and by wood industry The area, already damaged by the 1915 Avezzano earthquakes, experienced major human depopulation when many man were sent to war as Alpini guards.