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Carmagnola
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Carmagnola is a comune or municipality in the province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 25 km south of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 25,718 and an area of 96.4 square kilometers. The municipality of Carmagnola contains the frazioni or subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets. They are San Bernardo, Salsasio, San Giovanni, San Michele Grato, Cappuccini, Casanova, Tuninetti, Vallongo, and Motta e Corno. Carmagnola borders municipalities like Poirino, Villastellone, Carignano, Lombriasco, Ceresole Alba, Racconigi, Sommariva del Bosco and Caramagna Piemonte.
Around per year thousands, when Carmagnola appeared before the time in documents toponimo, the city still re-entered under the jurisdiction of the Arduinici that they governed marks it Turinese. From the fragmentation of this in territorial organisms more small, consequent to the dead women of the last arduinica Adelaide in 1091, the jurisdictional powers on the carmagnolese territory are shared between the marquises of Romagnano and the marquises of the Immense one. From 1200 until the half of the Carmagnola 1500's, it remained subjected to the dominion of the marquises of Saluzzo. Carmagnola remained at the mercy of invading and plunders. At first the lanzichenecchi of Carl V, to the time of the first terrible pestilenza of 1522, then French, Spanish and imperial troops were alternated in the occupation of the city.
Presently, Carmagnola experiences a sharp social, economic and population growth derivative of the strategic position of the locality and the high level of well-being and quality of life that is enjoyed with respect to other places of Italy.
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