Province of Lodi

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Map of the province of Lodi

The province of Lodi (Template:Langx; Ludesan: Script error: No such module "Lang".) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its provincial capital is the city of Lodi.

As of 2017, it has a population of 229,541 inhabitants over an area of Template:Circa, giving the province a population density of 293.2 inhabitants per square kilometre. The provincial president is Francesco Passerini.[1]

History

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The province of Lodi in the Middle Ages

The city of Lodi was first settled during the fifth century BC by Celtic tribes, before being occupied by the Romans in 222 BC; by 89 BC it was called Laus Pompeia, the central city of the Lodi Vecchio.[2] The history of the province in the Lombard and Frankish period is poorly documented, but the city of Lodi controlled the important trading route from Milan southwards to Cremona, Piacenza and the lower stretches of the River Lambro.

In 1025, the German emperor, Conrad II, granted certain rights to the Archbishop of Milan which caused land ownership to change and tensions in the region to flare.[3] Allied with the Holy Roman Emperor but independent, Laus Pomperia fought against the Milanesi in the twelfth century, and the city was destroyed in 1111 and again in 1158, which marked the end of the city on the old location. A request made of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, to rebuild the city near the Adda River was granted. The city, however, joined his opponents, the Lombard League, in 1167. Its citizens fought against Frederick at the Battle of Legnano in 1176. Still, it continued to have problems with Milan (also a member of the Lombard League) until the city was conquered in 1335 by lord of Milan Azzone Visconti.[2]

It remained peaceful until it was invaded in the 1490s. The first significant Italian victory by Napoleon took place in the province on 10 May 1796, where the 5,000 men-strong forces of Napoleon defeated Austrian forces of 10,000 men. It fell under Austrian rule until the Austrians left the city in 1859 and it was ruled by the French forces, led by Marshal Patrice de MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, from 10 June 1859. It later became a part of the Kingdom of Italy and became a component of the province of Milan.[2]

Geography

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Hills around San Colombano al Lambro
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Adda river near Lodi

The province of Lodi is one of twelve provinces in the region of Lombardy in northwestern Italy. It is about Template:Convert in area and is delineated by rivers; the right bank of the Adda nearly surrounds it, and a further part of the boundary is formed by the left bank of the Lambro and of the Po. The province is bounded on the east by the Province of Cremona, the Metropolitan City of Milan to the north and by the Province of Pavia to the west.[2] The land is mostly gently sloping or flat and the soil is alluvial loam. It is used to grow fodder crops, which are mown up to eight times a year, rice, wheat, maize, sugarbeet and vegetables.

Municipalities

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Lodi

Here is a list of the most populated municipalities of the province.

Municipality Population
Lodi 45,372
Codogno 15,868
Casalpusterlengo 15,236
Sant'Angelo Lodigiano 13,279
Lodi Vecchio 7,532
Zelo Buon Persico 6,860
Tavazzano con Villavesco 6,125
Mulazzano 5,768
Castiglione d'Adda 4,659
Massalengo 4,560

The least inhabited municipality is Maccastorna, a town with only 59 inhabitants. The full list is:

Transport

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Codogno railway station

Motorways

Railway lines

References

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External links

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