Garbagna Novarese
Garbagna Novarese is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) northeast of Turin and about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) southeast of Novara. Notable the Palazzo Caroelli. Garbagna Novarese borders the following municipalities: Nibbiola, Novara, Sozzago, Terdobbiate, and Trecate. Name originIt was mentioned for the first time in various documents dating back to between 840 and 1150, as Carpania. By the linguistic phenomena of lenition[3] and first-type anaphonesis,[4] since 1150 also names Garbania and Garbagna began to be used, while since 1367 only the latter has remained.[5][6] On 31 May 1863 it was officially renamed from Garbagna to Garbagna Novarese,[7] to distinguish it from Garbagna d'Alessandria. Curiously, in some official documents it is repeatedly called Garbagno.[8][9] References
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