Crotone is a city and
comune in
Calabria. Founded c. 710 BC as the
Achaean colony of
Kroton , it was known as
Cotrone from the
Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one. In 1992 it became the capital of the newly established
Province of Crotone. As of July 2007, its population was 61,032.