Benevento is a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 32 miles Northeast of Naples.
It is situated on a hill 400 ft. above sea-level at the confluence of the Calore and Sabbato. Estimated population in 1997 was 63,568.
Benevento occupies the site of the ancient Beneventum, originally Maleventum or Maluentum (meaning "the site of bad wind" - some authors also proposed it could mean "a place of crazy people", as in ancient times it was supposed that mad people had a sort of wind storm inside their head). It is supposed to have been founded in the imperial period by Diomedes