Domaso (

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'' (municipality) in the

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in the

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region Lombardy, located about north of

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and about northeast of

Como Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has m ...

. As of 9 October 2011, it had a population of 1,455 and an area of 6.1 km².All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute

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. Domaso borders the following municipalities:

Colico Colico ( Comasque: or ; la, Colicum) is a city in the province of Lecco, Lombardy, Italy. It is situated on the northern arm of Lake Como, where the river Adda enters the lake. Colico is the most important city in the northern part of Lake C ...

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, Livo, Peglio, Vercana.

History

Between 1634 and 1640 the governor and philanthropist Louis Paniza, maternal ancestor of the collaborator of the

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Luis de Unzaga Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga (1717–1793), also known as Louis Unzaga y Amezéga le Conciliateur, Luigi de Unzaga Panizza and Lewis de Onzaga, was governor of Spanish Louisiana from late 1769 to mid-1777, as well as a Captain General of Venezuela ...

, rebuilt the Church of Saint Bartholomew, the convent and in that church he built a chapel where he had two schools also founded, with the salaries of their respective teachers. Cazorla, Frank. The Governor Louis de Unzaga (1717-1793), Forerunner in the birth of the United States and liberalism, Foundation, Malaga, 2019, pages 6-23

Demographic evolution

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