Arconate ( lmo, Arconaa or ) is a ''

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region

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, located about northwest of

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. Arconate borders the following municipalities: Dairago,

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History

The territory on which Arconate currently stands was inhabited in ancient times by the

Ligurians The Ligures (singular Ligur; Italian: liguri; English: Ligurians) were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. Ancient Liguria corresponded more or less to the current Italian regio ...

, who then left room for the

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during the fifth century BC. A trace of the Ligurian origin would still be found in the phonetics of the local dialect; the conservation of these features is justified by the remoteness of the ancient village from larger centers and from the main roads. Like all of

Cisalpine Gaul Cisalpine Gaul ( la, Gallia Cisalpina, also called ''Gallia Citerior'' or ''Gallia Togata'') was the part of Italy inhabited by Celts (Gauls) during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. After its conquest by the Roman Republic in the 200s BC it was con ...

, this area was also conquered in the third century BC. by the

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, who revolutionized the territorial organization: they divided the agricultural fields with an orthogonal line formation and likewise did for the construction of roads and paths, on the model of the topography of military camps

References

22 Ottobre: nasce l’illustre arconatese Camilla M.

External links

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