Jelsi

Jelsi is an Italian town of 1.738 inhabitants, belonging to the Union of Municipalities of the "Tappino" in the province of Campobasso, in Molise. 
The town is located on the Molise Apennines in central Molise; it is 18 km from Campobasso, 25 from Larino, 44 ​​from Trivento.
The first real population to settle in the countryside was that of the Sicilians, then driven back to the south by the Osci, and then the olso branch of the Caraceni. But the first original nucleus of the town was perhaps formed during the fifth century (500-476 BC) with populations of Etruscan-Campanian culture, as in this period the Ionic style of the antefix found in the municipal countryside, now preserved in the church of the Annunziata.
In 1562 the town had 169 families. The village had taken shape in the thirteenth century under the guidance of Bertrand Beaumont together with Gildone. After his death the construction of a mausoleum was born which became the Angevin castle. Throughout the course of the modern age Jelsi was under the civil and judicial administration of the Capitanata.