Casteggio
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| Comune di Casteggio | |
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| Country |  Italy |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Province | Pavia (PV) |
| Mayor | Michele Manfra (since 2004-06-14) |
| Elevation | 90 m (295 ft) |
| Area | 17.78 km² (7 sq mi) |
| Population (as of 2005) | |
| - Total | 6,413 |
| - Density | 361/km² (935/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET, UTC+1 |
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| Gentilic | Casteggiani |
| Dialing code | 0383 |
| Postal code | 27045 |
| Frazioni | Cròtesi, Mairano, Rivetta, San Biagio, Sgarbina, Tronco Nero |
| Patron | St. Peter Martyr |
| - Day | Monday after Third Sunday in September |
| Website: www.comune.casteggio.pv.it | |
Casteggio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km south of Milan and about 20 km south of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 6,380 and an area of 17.8 km².[1]
Casteggio borders the following municipalities: Borgo Priolo, Calvignano, Casatisma, Corvino San Quirico, Montebello della Battaglia, Oliva Gessi, Robecco Pavese, Verretto.
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[edit] History
Clastidium was a settlement of the Ligures, belonging to the tribe called Marici by the Romans (and wrongly identified as Celts by Polybius). The location was the site of a major defeat of the Marici by the legions of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, which was celebrated in a tragedy by the Latin poet Naevius. In 218 BC it regained its independence after the Roman defeat in the neighbourhood by Hannibal's army; however it fell again to Roman rule in 197 BC, when it was also set to fire.
Never to recover its former splendour, it was annexed to the colonia of Piacenza, and remained under that city’s control after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
In the Middle Ages Casteggio came under the influence of Pavia, to which it was assigned by Frederick Barbarossa in 1164. In 1441 it was acquired by Cesare Martinengo, and was later ruled by the Simonetta, Sforza, Bentivoglio and Del Carretto dynasties. It was heavily damaged during the Italian Wars of late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
[edit] Famous people
Casteggio was the birthplace of the explorer Giuseppe Maria Giulietti.
[edit] Demographic evolution
