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A Stephen J. Saviello article from Knights of Columbus
newsletter:



Understand Italy's Regions, Provinces & Comunes

LOMBARDIA IS CHOSEN AS AN EXAMPLE:

LOMBARDIA is one of the 20 REGIONS in Italy.

Within LOMBARIA there are 11 Provinces of the 103 total
Provinces in Italy.

They are: Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi,
Mantova, Milano, Pavio, Sondrio, and Varese.

Within each PROVINCE there are many Comuni (towns).

There are a total of 1546 Comuni (towns) within these
11 Provinces.  For example:

Bergamo has  250, Brescia has 206, etc.

The Region of Lombardia was constitutionally formed
in 1970.

Of its 11 Provinces, 2 are "new" having been formed in
1992. (Official date March 6, 1992).  They are Lecco and
Lodi.

Lecco was formed from 6 Comuni (towns) that were
formerly in the Province of Bergamo and 84 Comuni
that were formerly in the Province of Como.

Lodi was formed from 61 Comuni from the Province
of Milano.

In the US, a comparative breakdown would be:

Regions would   =  States
Provinces         =  Counties
Comuni            =   Towns, Villages, Municipalities,
Townships

I hope I'm not oversimplifing, but you need not worry
about the REGION.  You will be writing to the
applicable PROVINCE and the COMUNE.

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BY Stephen J. Saviello
Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
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publications, as long as full attribution is provided.