Cospaia
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Cospaia | |
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 Old view of Cospaia | |
  Cospaia Location of Cospaia in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 43°33′32″N 12°10′15″E / 43.55889°N 12.17083°E | |
| Country |  Italy |
| Region | Umbria |
| Province | Perugia (PG) |
| Comune | San Giustino |
| Elevation | 357 m (1,171 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Dialing code | 075 |
Cospaia is an Italian hamlet (frazione) of the comune of San Giustino in the Province of Perugia, Umbria.
History[edit]
The village became accidentally independent in 1440. When Pope Eugene IV ceded the territory of Sansepolcro to the Republic of Florence, by mistake a small strip of land was excluded from the treaty that delimited the borders. Having become no one's land, the inhabitants promptly declared independence. As a result, the village was the Republic of Cospaia for some 385 years, but in 1826 it was absorbed into the Papal States by agreement with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
Geography[edit]
Cospaia is located in the northern suburbs of San Giustino, by a lake and next to the borders of Umbria with Tuscany. It is 3 km from Sansepolcro (in the Province of Arezzo), 15 from Città di Castello, 42 from Arezzo and 67 from Perugia.
See also[edit]
- Republic of Senarica
- List of historic states of Italy
References[edit]
- Ascani, Angelo (1963). Cospaia: storia inedita della singolare Repubblica. Tuscany: Città di Castello.
- Natali, Filippo (1892). La stato libero di Cospaia: nell'alta Valle del Tevere (1440-1826). Umbertide: stab. tip. Tiberino.
External links[edit]
Media related to Cospaia at Wikimedia Commons
- Thayer's Gazetteer
- La storia ritrovata: La Repubblica di Cospaia (in Italian)
- Cospaia: storia della repubblica più piccola al mondo (in Italian)
- Flag of Cospaia Republic
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