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The name derives from Grassus, a Roman noble name or from a fat land, that is fertile. It is located on the Via Appia of ancient Rome. The oldest document that has news of the country is the Papal Bull of Callisto II, written in 1123, where it is referred to as the "Crassanum"; while from the Angioino Registry of Basilicata of 1280 we learn that it was a "farmhouse" belonging to Tricarico. At the beginning of the 1300s the fief of Grassano was donated by the Lords of Tricarico to the Order of Gerosolomitano, also known as the Knights of Malta, who owned it until the beginning of the 19th century. It became one of the most important Commendas of the Basilicata Order of Basilicata, so much so that from the Commenda of Grassano depended as many as 17 grunts located in various Lucanian and Apulian countries. The Knights of Malta held civil jurisdiction, while the penal one belonged to the Sanseverinos and the Revertera of Tricarico. The latter later passed to the prince of Bisignano, the De Novellis and the Revertera of Salandra. In the sixteenth century, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries had a period of wealth and reached with the administration of the Commendatori (u