Cava

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Cava, a great and populous City and a Bishop's See in the hither Calabria in the Kingdom of Naples; seated partly upon a Hill, and partly in a Valley, within four Miles of Salerno, and about 20 from Naples to the South. This Bishop was heretofore a Suffragan to the Archbishop of Salerno; but now exempted; and is immediately under the Pope; which Honor was obtained from Boniface IX, in 1394. yet is the Bishop's Jurisdiction limited with the Walls of the City. There is also a Abbey in it.