AVERSA, episcopal see, Campania, Italy, province of Naples, I2im. N. by rail from Naples, from which there is also an electric tramway. Population (1931) 2 5, 296 (town) ; 3 5,003 (commune) . Aversa was the first settlement granted to the Normans in 1027 for help to Duke Sergius of Naples against Pandulf IV. of Capua. The Benedictine abbey of S. Lorenzo preserves a portal of the I 1 th century. A large lunatic asylum was founded by Joachim Murat in 1813.