The Val di Crati was an administrative region in the Kingdom of Sicily.
At that time, its population was a mix of Greek and Lombard (Latin) Christians.
[1] Under the Hohenstaufen and Angevin kings, the Val di Crati became closely associated with the terra iordanis, the land of Jordan (died 1092), son of Roger I.
[2] In 1145, the first Cistercian monastery in southern Italy, Santa Maria della Sambucina, was founded in the Val di Crati.
[3] In 1150, Roger II issued a new law (novella) for Calabria and the Val di Crati, instructing judges on how to divide property among heirs.