THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION OF CONTEMPORARY AND PRE-UNIFICATION ITALY
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Contemporary Italy
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Modern Italy is divided into twenty administrative "regioni".  Each regione
contains from one to nine provincie, with a total of ninety-four provincie
in all. Each provincia contains many comuni, one of which serves as the
provincial capital and shares the same name.

Some Italian communities are so small that they do not have their own mayor
but instead fall within the administrative jurisdiction of a comune: these
are called frazioni.


Regioni and provincie in contemporary Italy
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 1. ABRUZZO

    Chieti (CH)
    L'Aquila (AQ)
    Pescara (PE)
    Teramo (TE)

 2. BASILICATA

    Matera (MT)
    Potenza (PZ)

 3. CALABRIA

    Catanzaro (CZ)
    Cosenza (CS)
    Reggio Calabria (RC)

 4. CAMPANIA

    Avellino (AV)
    Benevento (BN)
    Caserta (CE)
    Napoli = Naples (NA)
    Salerno (SA)

 5. EMILIA-ROMAGNA

    Bologna (BO)
    Ferrara (FE)
    Forli (FO)
    Modena (MO)
    Parma (PR)
    Piacenza (PC)
    Ravenna (RA)
    Reggio Emilia (RE)

 6. FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA

    Gorizia (GO)
    Pordenone (PN)
    Trieste (TS)
    Udine (UD)

 7. LAZIO (LATIUM)

    Frosinone (FR)
    Latina (LT)
    Rieti (RI)
    Roma = Rome (ROMA)
    Viterbo (VT)

 8. LIGURIA

    Genova = Genoa (GE)
    Imperia (IM)
    La Spezia (SP)
    Savona (SV)

 9. LOMBARDIA (LOMBARDY)

    Bergamo (BG)
    Brescia (BS)
    Como (CO)
    Cremona (CR)
    Mantova = Mantua (MN)
    Milano = Milan (MI)
    Pavia (PV)
    Sondrio (SO)
    Varese (VA)

10. MARCHE

    Ancona (AN)
    Ascolia Piceno (AP)
    Macerata (MC)
    Pesaro e Urbino (PS)

11. MOLISE

    Isernia (IS)
    Campobasso (CB)

12. PIEMONTE (PIEDMONT)

    Alessandria (AL)
    Asti (AT)
    Cuneo (CN)
    Novara (NO)
    Torino = Turin (TO)
    Vercelli (VC)

13. PUGLIA (APULIA)

    Bari (BA)
    Brindisi (CO)
    Foggia (FG)
    Lecce (LE)
    Taranto (TA)

14. SARDEGNA (SARDINIA)

    Cagliari (CA)
    Nuoro (NU)
    Sassari (SS)

15. SICILIA (SICILY)

    Agrigento (AG)
    Caltanissetta (CL)
    Catania (CT)
    Enna (EN)
    Messina (ME)
    Palermo (PA)
    Ragusa (RG)
    Siracusa = Syracuse (SR)
    Trapani (TP)

16. TOSCANA (TUSCANY)

    Arezzo (AR)
    Firenze = Florence (FI)
    Grosseto (GR)
    Livorno = Leghorn (LI)
    Lucca (LU)
    Massa-Carrara (MS)
    Pisa (PI)
    Pistoia (PT)
    Siena (SI)

17. TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE

    Bolzano (BZ)
    Trento (TN)

18. UMBRIA

    Perugia (PG)
    Terni (TR)

19. VALLE D'AOSTA

    Aosta (AO)

20. VENETO

    Belluno (BL)
    Padova = Padua (PD)
    Rovigo (RO)
    Treviso (TV)
    Venezia = Venice (VE)
    Verona (VR)
    Vicenza (VI)


Pre-Unification Italy
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Prior to 1870 when a Papal treaty finally united Italy with Rome as her
capital, Italy was divided into a number of city states and principalities
in the north, with a tradition of Austrian influence, the papal states in
the centre, and two Spanish kingdoms in the south, those of Naples and
Sicily.


Regioni and provincie in pre-Unification Italy
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 1. REGNO DI SARDEGNA (KINGDOM OF SARDINIA)

    PIEMONTE (PIEDMONT)

        Alessandria
        Anneci (Annecy)
        Aosta
        Coni
        Genova
        Nizza (Nice)
        Novara
        Savoia (Savoy)
        Savona
        Torino (Turin)
        Vercelli

    SARDEGNA (SARDINIA)

        Cagliari
        Nuoro
        Sassari

 2. LOMBARDIA-VENEZIA (LOMBARDY-VENICE)

       Belluno
       Bergamo
       Brescia
       Como
       Cremona
       Lodi
       Mantova (Mantua)
       Milano (Milan)
       Padova
       Pavia
       Polesina
       Sondrio
       Treviso
       Udine
       Venezia (Venice)
       Verona
       Vicenza

 3. PARMA

 4. MODENA

 5. LUCCA

 6. TOSCANA (TUSCANY)

       Arezzo
       Firenze (Florence)
       Grosseto
       Pisa
       Siena

 7. STATI DELLA CHIESA (PAPAL STATES)

       Ancona
       Ascoli
       Bologna
       Camerino
       Civita Vecchia
       Fermo
       Ferrara
       Forli
       Frosinone
       Macerata
       Orvieto
       Perugia
       Ravenna
       Rieti
       Roma (Rome)
       Spoleto
       Urbino e Pesaro
       Velletri
       Viterbo

 8. REGNO DELLE DUE SICILIE (KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILIES)

    NAPOLI (Naples)

       Abbruzzo Citra
       Abbruzzo Ultra 1
       Abbruzzo Ultra 2
       Basilicata
       Calabria Citra
       Calabria Ultra
       Capitanata
       Molise
       Napoli (Naples)
       Principato Citra
       Principato Ultra
       Terra di Bari
       Terra di Lavoro
       Terra d'Otranto

    SICILIA (SICILY)

       Caltanissetta
       Catania
       Girgenti
       Messina
       Palermo
       Siragosa (Syracuse)
       Trapani


Errors and Omissions
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Please advise any errors and omissions, however minor, to me at any of the
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Rudy Lacchin (Gloucester, UK)

29th May 1994