Seveso is an Italian town and comune of 19,872 inhabitants situated in the Province of Milan, in the Region of Lombardy. The economy of the town has traditionally been based around the furniture industry. In Italy, the commune (comune, plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township. ... Milan (It. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... Lombardy (in Italian Lombardia) is a region in northern Italy between the Alps and the Po Valley. ...

Its name comes from the river of the same name which crosses the commune in a north-south direction.

Geography

The town is situated 21 km to the north of Milan in the Brianza lowlands. The territory of the commume is highly urbanised, with the majority of inhabitants living in the town. MILAN 2 Type anti-tank Nationality joint France/German Era Cold War Launch platform Individual, Vehicle Target Vehicle History Builder Date of design Production period Service duration Operators Variants Number built Specifications Type Diameter 0. ...

Seveso lies on the national trunk road Statale dei Giovi, which connects Milan to Como and on the Milan-Meda motorway. It is also serviced by the Milan–Asso railway line. Como is a city in Lombardy, Italy, 45 km north of Milan; the capital of the province of Como, it borders Lake Como. ...

History

Seveso's origins data back to about the third century BC, when certain areas around Brianza were used as military staging posts for the Roman conquest of Gaul. Towards 780, the monastery at Meda was founded, the jurisdiction of which extended to the territory of Seveso. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (from Latin Gallia, c. ... Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ...

In 1252 the church of Saint Peter Martyr (S. Pietro Martire) was constructed in homage to the Dominican brother who had been assassinated in Seveso. The Church of the Seminary preserves in its crypt the knife which was used to kill him. The original Peter Martyr was a 13th century Dominican saint. ...

The town was struck in the 16th century by two episodes of famine and plague. During the 17th century, the town was ruled by several families, of which the Arese family left a number of outstanding monuments. A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are undernourished and death by starvation becomes increasingly common. ... Plague is usually understood as a generic term for Bubonic plague, the mortal disease caused by the bacillus Yersinia pestis, which is spread by fleas from rats and some species of mice to human beings. ...

In 1798, Prince Giuseppe II of the Napoleonic Cisalpine Republic ordered the Dominicans to leave the monastery and church of Saint Peter. In the unification of the Kingdom of Italy, territory from Barlassina was passed to Seveso. This decision was rejected by the population and the two comuni were again separated in 1901. For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... The flag of the Cisalpine Republic was the Transpadane Republic vertical Italian tricolour, with the square shape of the Cispadane Republic The Cisalpine Republic (Italian: Repubblica Cisalpina) was a French client republic in Northern Italy that lasted from 1797 to 1802. ... There have been several entities known as the Kingdom of Italy. ...

Ecological disaster

Seveso made world headlines when on 10 July 1976 storage vessels at the ICMESA chemical plant ruptured, releasing several kilograms of the dioxin TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) into the atmosphere. Tens of thousands of farm animals and pets died or were later deliberately slaughted, though it is believed that there was not a single human death directly attributable to the incident. The event came later to be known as the Seveso disaster. Dioxins form a family of toxic chlorinated organic compounds that bioaccumulate in humans and wildlife due to their fat solubility. ... (Redirected from 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin) Dioxins form a family of toxic chlorinated organic compounds that bioaccumulate in humans and wildlife due to their fat solubility. ... The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred in Seveso, Italy on July 10, 1976 in a small chemical manufacturing plant of ICMESA. During the production of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, a herbicide, fungicide, and chemical intermediate, an uncontrolled reaction occurred and the chemical reactor ruptured. ...

External links

• Official website (in Italian)