Pagani (Italian: [paˈgani]; Neapolitan: ('e) Pavane, [(e) pɑˈvɑːnə]) is a town and comune in Campania, Italy, administratively part of the Province of Salerno, in the region known as the Agro nocerino-sarnese.

[3][4] In the period before the Roman supremacy in southern Italy, it was included into the territory of Nuceria, the chief town in the Sarnus valley – Herculaneum, Pompeii, Stabiae and Surrentum all being dependent upon it, according to many archaeologists.

[5] In the Middle Ages (around the 9th century) a small colony of Saracens was introduced in the town by permission of the Dukes of Naples, but it lasted only a few decades.

The territory was merged back to Nuceria, which took the name of Nuceria Paganorum (Italian: Nocera dei Pagani), inspired by the noble Pagano family living in the castle of Curtis in Plano, in modern-day Pagani.

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