Bruzzano is a district (quartier) of

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. It is an area located within Zone 9 of the city.

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Its name comes from the Latin ''Bruttianum'', as the land owner of the agricultural ''fundus'' was a Roman citizen coming from ''Bruttium'' (today

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). In this region, in fact, there is now the namesake municipality of Bruzzano Zeffirio. The first written documents that testify the existence of an independent ''comune'' dates back to 1346, while the earliest proof of the existence of the church of Santa Maria Assunta dates back to 1011. Bruzzano formed a separate municipality until 1869, when it joined

Affori Affori is a ward of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 9 administrative division of the city, located north of the city centre. It borders with the wards of Bruzzano, Comasina, Bovisasca, Dergano and Niguarda. Before being annexed to Milan in 192 ...

Bresso Bresso ( Milanese: ) is a municipality (''comune'') in the Metropolitan City of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about north of Milan. As of 2025, it has a population of 26,530 inhabitants and a population density of 7,849 persons/k ...

and Dergano to form the ''Comune di Affori e Uniti'' (named again just ''Affori'' since 1912), which was then annexed in Milan in 1923.

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