Monteleone di Puglia (Irpinian: Munteleòne) is a hill town and comune of the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of south-eastern Italy.

The town was historically inhabited by Provençal refugees (followers of the Waldensian Protestant rite)[4] and Arbëreshë community,[5] but both have since assimilated.

The mayor sided with the officer, and the women were promptly imprisoned in a warehouse filled with cheese and other foods.

Eventually, the citizens of Monteleone - armed with clubs and pitchforks - were subdued when renfoircements were sent by the prefect of Foggia, Giovanni Dolfin.

[citation needed] In the years following the war, a large number of migrants from the town and their descendants established an expatriate community in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.