Apuania was a short-lived ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' of the

Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy (, ) was a unitary state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Kingdom of Sardinia, Sardinia was proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy wa ...

, created in 1938 under the

Fascist regime Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hie ...

by merging the Tuscan ''comuni'' of

Massa Massa may refer to: Places Italy *Province of Massa and Carrara, province in the Tuscany region of Italy * Duchy of Massa and Carrara, controlled the towns of Massa di Carrara and Carrara * Roman Catholic Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombi ...

Carrara Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, ...

and

Montignoso Montignoso is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Massa and Carrara in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northwest of Florence and about southeast of Massa. Montignoso borders the following municipalities: Forte dei Marmi, ...

. The

province of Massa-Carrara The province of Massa-Carrara () is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is named after the provincial capital Massa, and Carrara, the other main town in the province. History The province of "Massa e Carrara" was born in 1859 from ...

was accordingly renamed province of Apuania. Among the main supporters of this unified municipality were the Fascist leaders

Renato Ricci Renato Ricci (1 June 1896 – 22 January 1956) was an Italian fascist politician active during the Mussolini government. Early life and arrest Ricci was born on 1 June 1896 in Carrara into working-class family. He first came to prominenc ...

, from Carrara, and Osvaldo Sebastiani, from Massa. The comune of Apuania had an area of 181 square kilometres and population of 106,378 inhabitants (59,031 in Carrara, 41,819 in Massa, 5,528 in Montignoso), over half of the overall population of 204,377 in the province. Its motto was ''Ex tribus una'' (

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: "From three, one"), and the administrative seat was in Carrara, the largest of the three towns. It was dissolved in 1946, after which Massa, Carrara and Montignoso returned to their previous status as separate ''comuni''.Araldica Civica
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Former municipalities of Tuscany {{Massa-Carrara-geo-stub