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Nonantola (Modenese: ) is a town and comune in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is in the Po Valley about from Modena on the road to Ferrara.

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Italian comune.name
Nonantola
Italian comune.image_skyline
File:Nonantola, torre dei modenesi 04.JPG
Italian comune.image_caption
Modenesi tower in town centre
Italian comune.image_shield
Nonantola-Stemma.svg
Italian comune.region
Emilia-Romagna
Italian comune.province
Modena (MO)
Italian comune.frazioni
La Grande, Casette, Campazzo, Bagazzano, Rubbiara, Redù, Via Larga
Italian comune.mayor
Federica Nannetti
Italian comune.area_total_km2
55.32
Italian comune.population_total
15921
Italian comune.population_as_of
30 November 2017
Italian comune.population_demonym
Nonantolani
Italian comune.elevation_m
20
Italian comune.saint
St. Sylvester
Italian comune.day
December 31
Italian comune.postal_code
41015
Italian comune.area_code
059

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Official name
Nonantola
Population
16106
Area
55.32
Elevation
20
Image
Abbazia di nonantola, facciata 02.JPG
Dialing code
059
Licence plate code
MO
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Commons category
Nonantola
postal code
41015
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Nonantola (Modenese: ) is a town and comune in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is in the Po Valley about from Modena on the road to Ferrara.

==History== In ancient times the territory of Nonantola was inhabited by the Celtic tribes, more specifically by the Boii. After the Roman conquest of Northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) the Boii were subjugated, and as a result they started to slowly speak Latin, giving rise to the local Gallo-Romance language, a variety of Gallo-Italic languages. Nonantola's history is strongly connected to the Benedictine monastery founded by the Lombards. Its creation in 752 totally supplanted the old Roman past and was the premise of Nonantola's High Middle Ages importance, as it was chosen for the meeting in 883 between Pope Marinus I and the emperor Charles the Fat. Pope Hadrian III was buried here.

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