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. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic Administrative division of both provinces and regions and may be properly approximated in Examples of administrative divisions English terms In many of the following terms corresponding to British cultural influence areas of relatively low mean population Municipio ( Spanish and Italian) and Município ( Portuguese) are terms used for subnational entities. Circoscrizione (plural circoscrizioni) can refer to two different administrative units of Italy. A quartiere (plural quartieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns It is cognate to the English word fraction, but in practice is roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other countries. Cognates in Linguistics are words that have a common origin They may occur within a language such as shirt and skirt as two English words descended from A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. In Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, a ward is an Electoral district
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Description
Typically the frazioni cover villages surrounding the principal town (the capoluogo) of a comune. Subdivision of a comune is optional, some comuni have no frazioni, but others have several dozen.
In practice, most frazioni are small villages or hamlets, occasionally a mere clump of houses, although being such a place is not requisite. Nor is every hamlet a frazione; those that are not are often referred to as località, for example in the telephone book. In some occasions frazioni can be more populated than the capoluogo of the comune. Very occasionally, due to unusual circumstances or to the depopulation of the capoluogo, the town hall and its administrative functions can move to one of the frazioni: the comune, however, still retains the name of the capoluogo.
History
Historically, many frazioni came into being during the Fascist period, when a major effort was made to consolidate and rationalize the territorial subdivisions of the country. Fascism is a totalitarian nationalist and corporatist ideology Sometimes, a frazione represents a former comune felt at some point to be no longer viable.
Formerly, they were established, and their borders defined, by the central government, except in the case of the five autonomous regions (see Regions of Italy), where this was done at the regional level. An autonomous area is an area of a Country that has a degree of Autonomy, or freedom from an external authority The article is about the geographic sense of the term For other uses including Regions and Regional, see Region (disambiguation. Under the terms, however, of Legislative Decree 267/2000 in implementation of amendments to Title V of the Italian Constitution, the frazioni are now defined at the comune level.
Officers
Under the former legislation, a frazione had the option of having a prosindaco (submayor), who was appointed by the mayor (il sindaco) of the comune, often on the recommendation of deliberative bodies such as the communal council (consiglio) or the giunta, or as a result of a petition by enough residents of the frazione involved; although there was no official provision for groups of frazioni joining forces with the appointment of a single prosindaco, the case was frequent enough. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Under current law, however, Article 54 of the d. lgs. 267/2000 provides that a mayor may delegate mayoral functions at the frazione level to a councillor of the comune.
In many comuni, in addition to their advisory function, the frazioni are endowed with their own clerks and recorders of deeds, but do not maintain their own civil records.
See also
A località, in Italy, is the name given to inhabited places that are not accorded a more significant distinction in administrative law such as a Frazione Circoscrizione (plural circoscrizioni) can refer to two different administrative units of Italy. Contrada (plural contrade) is a generic name given to various types of Italian city subdivisions now unofficial Rione (plural rioni) is the name given to a ward in several Italian cities the best-known of which is Rome. The word rione (pl rioni) comes from the Latin regio (pl regiones, meaning region during the Middle Ages the Latin word A terziere (plural terzieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns A quartiere (plural quartieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns A sestiere (plural sestieri) is a subdivision of certain Italian towns and citiesDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic