Arconate ( or ) is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Milan
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in the
Italian
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region
Lombardy
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, located about northwest of
Milan
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.
Arconate borders the following municipalities:
Dairago
Dairago ( or , ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan.
Dairago borders the following municipalities: Busto Arsizio, Legnano, Magnago, Villa Cortese, B ...
,
Buscate
Buscate ( ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Milan, in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northwest of Milan. As of 1 January 2014, it had a population of 4,822 and an area of .
It is the ancestral home of the Pisoni fam ...
,
Busto Garolfo
Busto Garolfo ( Lombard: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan of 13 978 inhabitants. Busto Garolfo is located in the Italian region Lombardy, placed about northwest of Milan.
Toponymy
In the local dialect, belongi ...
,
Inveruno
Inveruno ( or ''Invrugn'' is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about west of Milan.
Inveruno borders the following municipalities: Buscate, Busto Garolfo, Arconate, Casore ...
,
Cuggiono
Cuggiono ( ) is a small Italian town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Milan, west of Milan on the Motorway A4 to Turin, gate of Marcallo-Mesero.
American baseball player Yogi Berra's parents were from Malvaglio, just outside Cuggiono. ...
. Arconate is a twin with the city Lennik in Belgium
History
The territory on which Arconate currently stands was inhabited in ancient times by the
Ligurians, who then left room for the
Celts
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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 (, also called ''Gallia Citerior'' or ''Gallia Togata'') was the name given, especially during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, to a region of land inhabited by Celts (Gauls), corresponding to what is now most of northern Italy.
Afte ...
, this area was also conquered in the third century BC. by the
Romans, 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
Official website
Cities and towns in Lombardy
Articles which contain graphical timelines
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