Cordenons
Encyclopedia
Cordenons is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Pordenone
in the Italian
region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
, located about 90 km northwest of Trieste
and about 4 km northeast of Pordenone
. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 17,738 and an area of 56.8 km².
The municipality of Cordenons contains the frazioni
(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Nogaredo, Pasch, Romans, Sclavons, and Villa d'Arco.
Cordenons borders the following municipalities: Pordenone
, San Giorgio della Richinvelda
, San Quirino
, Vivaro, Zoppola
.
) migrated to this territory; they were followed by the Celts (800-700 BC). The unity of these communities(Celts and Veneti) founded the first nucleus of inhabitants of the area.
With the coming of Rome the area became a Roman province. When the Postumia road was created, in order to defend trade, several roadblocks were created: Cordenons developed from one of them.
In the following centuries the area was subjected to the invasions of the Visigoths (401-408 AD), Huns (452 AD), Longobards (568 AD).
The name appears officially for the first time in a diploma dated 5 May, 897, belonging to Berengario king of Italy.
The name stems from Cortes Naonis (Court of the Naonis river). However the name doesn't reference a precise site instead a larger territory under the government of the roman empire.
The Hungarian invasions, although disastrous did not signal the end of the village, since in 1029 it became an earldom of the house of Ozi of Bavaria and finally to that of the Habsburgs.
In 1500 AD the area was conquered by the Republic of Venice.
With the Napoleonic events, Cordenons became an autonomous municipality and after the end of the Republic of Venice, became territory of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1866 when Cordenons was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.
After the Second World War, Cordenons was invested with the Military Worth Bronze Medal for the support given to the Partisan Resistance.
In the contemporary period Cordenons developed paper, silk and cotton industries.
Economy relies on agriculture and stock rearing.
Cordenons is mainly used as a bedroom community as workers travel to adjacent (and not only) industrial centres: from Pordenone to Udine as well as Treviso and Trieste.
Several cultural activities managed by the municipality, have the scope to give life blood to the town.
The geographic texture is very interesting. The main characteristics are the “Magredi” (“poor soil”, arid and without water soil. Stones are the characteristic element of this soil) and the “Risorgive” (the site where the river resurfaces after an under ground path among the stones that constitute the permeable soil).
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the Province of Pordenone
Province of Pordenone
The Province of Pordenone is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pordenone. The territory was carved out of the Province of Udine in 1968....
in the Italian
Italy
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region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli–Venezia Giulia is one of the twenty regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The capital is Trieste. It has an area of 7,858 km² and about 1.2 million inhabitants. A natural opening to the sea for many Central European countries, the region is...
, located about 90 km northwest of Trieste
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is situated towards the end of a narrow strip of land lying between the Adriatic Sea and Italy's border with Slovenia, which lies almost immediately south and east of the city...
and about 4 km northeast of Pordenone
Pordenone
Pordenone is a comune of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.The name comes from the Latin "Portus Naonis" meaning the port on the river Noncello - History :...
. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 17,738 and an area of 56.8 km².
The municipality of Cordenons contains the frazioni
Frazione
A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...
(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Nogaredo, Pasch, Romans, Sclavons, and Villa d'Arco.
Cordenons borders the following municipalities: Pordenone
Pordenone
Pordenone is a comune of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region.The name comes from the Latin "Portus Naonis" meaning the port on the river Noncello - History :...
, San Giorgio della Richinvelda
San Giorgio della Richinvelda
San Giorgio della Richinvelda is a comune in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 90 km northwest of Trieste and about 20 km northeast of Pordenone...
, San Quirino
San Quirino
San Quirino is a comune in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 100 km northwest of Trieste and about 8 km northeast of Pordenone...
, Vivaro, Zoppola
Zoppola
Zoppola is a comune in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 90 km northwest of Trieste and about 9 km east of Pordenone....
.
History
In 1000 BC the population of the Veneti (from the present Czech RepublicCzech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
) migrated to this territory; they were followed by the Celts (800-700 BC). The unity of these communities(Celts and Veneti) founded the first nucleus of inhabitants of the area.
With the coming of Rome the area became a Roman province. When the Postumia road was created, in order to defend trade, several roadblocks were created: Cordenons developed from one of them.
In the following centuries the area was subjected to the invasions of the Visigoths (401-408 AD), Huns (452 AD), Longobards (568 AD).
The name appears officially for the first time in a diploma dated 5 May, 897, belonging to Berengario king of Italy.
The name stems from Cortes Naonis (Court of the Naonis river). However the name doesn't reference a precise site instead a larger territory under the government of the roman empire.
The Hungarian invasions, although disastrous did not signal the end of the village, since in 1029 it became an earldom of the house of Ozi of Bavaria and finally to that of the Habsburgs.
In 1500 AD the area was conquered by the Republic of Venice.
With the Napoleonic events, Cordenons became an autonomous municipality and after the end of the Republic of Venice, became territory of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1866 when Cordenons was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy.
After the Second World War, Cordenons was invested with the Military Worth Bronze Medal for the support given to the Partisan Resistance.
In the contemporary period Cordenons developed paper, silk and cotton industries.
Today and Evolution
Nowadays the industrial development of bigger centres is strangling the industries of Cordenons.Economy relies on agriculture and stock rearing.
Cordenons is mainly used as a bedroom community as workers travel to adjacent (and not only) industrial centres: from Pordenone to Udine as well as Treviso and Trieste.
Several cultural activities managed by the municipality, have the scope to give life blood to the town.
The geographic texture is very interesting. The main characteristics are the “Magredi” (“poor soil”, arid and without water soil. Stones are the characteristic element of this soil) and the “Risorgive” (the site where the river resurfaces after an under ground path among the stones that constitute the permeable soil).
External links
www.comune.cordenons.pn.it www.paesionline.it- neos1.fortunecity.com rete.comuni-italiani.it http://it.wikipedia.org