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Biandrate

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Biandrate (Piedmontese: Biandrà, Lombard: Biandraa) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about west of Novara.

Key facts

Italian comune.name
Biandrate
Italian comune.official_name
Comune di Biandrate
Italian comune.image_skyline
Biandrate parrocchiale.jpg
Italian comune.image_caption
Parish church.
Italian comune.image_shield
Biandrate-Stemma.png
Italian comune.region
Piedmont
Italian comune.province
Novara (NO)
Italian comune.mayor
Luciano Pigat
Italian comune.area_total_km2
12.7
Italian comune.population_total
1190
Italian comune.population_as_of
31 December 2010
Italian comune.elevation_m
160
Italian comune.saint
St. Serenus of Marseille
Italian comune.postal_code
28061
Italian comune.area_code
0321

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
comune of Italy
Official name
Biandrate
Country
Italy
Population
1322
Area
12.45
Elevation
160
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
Casalbeltrame
Image
Biandrate parrocchiale.jpg
Dialing code
0321
Licence plate code
NO
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postal code
28061
Commons category
Biandrate
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Encyclopedic overview

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Biandrate (Piedmontese: Biandrà, Lombard: Biandraa) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about west of Novara.

==History== Archaeological findings have proved that the area of Biandrate was already settled in Roman times, although no consensus exists about the existence of a Roman municipium here. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Biandrate regained importance only from the 10th century, when its counts held large territories in the area. In 1025, Count Vibertus, after expanding the family's lands around Vercelli and Val d'Ossola, obtained the title of Ivrea; such possessions were confirmed to his successor Guido II by Emperor Conrad II. His successor Alberto I took part in the First Crusade. In his age, Biandrate is mentioned as a free commune.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Biandrate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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