Novara (It. Provincia di Novara) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara. In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ... Novara is a city of northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. ...
It has an area of 1,339 sq km, and a total population of 343,040 (2001). There are 88 communes in the province (source: Italian institute of statistics Istat, see this link).
A diocese and the capital of the province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy, noted for the manufacture of wool, cotton, and silk textiles, and machinery.
Novara was the birthplace of the ancient jurist, C. Albucius Silo, Peter Lombard, the philologist Cattaneo, the painter Caccia, and the Jesuit Tornielli.
Novara, formerly Novaria, was inhabited by Ligurians and Salassians.
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