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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: A.S. Casale Calcio, People from Casale Monferrato, Roman Catholic Diocese of Casale Monferrato, Leandro Bisiach, Evasius, Ugo Cavallero, Giovanni Lanza, Carlo Evasio Soliva, Leonardo Bistolfi, Anne d'Alencon, Giovanni Piana, Camilla Faa, Roberto Bolle, Umberto Caligaris, Irene of Montferrat, Synagogue of Casale Monferrato, Casale Monferrato railway station, Margaret Palaeologina, Cesare Maria De Vecchi, Faa di Bruno, Egidio Ortona, Ascanio Sobrero, A.S. Junior Pallacanestro Casale, Luigi Nazari di Calabiana, Francesco Negri, John IV, Marquess of Montferrat, Luigi Barbesino, Edizioni Piemme, Buzzi Unicem, Luigi Hugues, Eleuterio Pagliano, Carlo Cozio, Luigi Canina, Ubertino of Casale, Giovanni Zanni, Giovanni da Casale, Niccolo Musso, Giuseppe Demachi, Facino Cane, Ottavio Ottavi, Giacomo Zanetti, Krumiri, Margarita Bobba, Angiola Guglielma Butteri, Giovanni Martino Spanzotti, Pier Francesco Guala, Margarita Balliana, Camilla Soardi, Gattola, Francesco Ottavio Magnocavalli, Ferdinando del Cairo, Joseph Rocchietti, Lo Spettatore del Monferrato. Excerpt: Casale Monferrato, population 36,058, is a town and comune in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy, part of the province of Alessandria. It is situated about 60 km east of Turin on the right bank of the Po, where the river runs at the foot of the Montferrato hills. Beyond the river lies the vast plain of the Po valley. The fortified town from an engraving of 1745. On the left the river Po, and to the right the star-shaped cittadella.The origins of the town are fairly obscure. It is known that the Gaulish settlement of Vardacate (from var = "water"; ate = "populated place") existed on the Po in this area, and that it became a Roman municipium. By the beginning of the 8th century there was a small town under Lombard rule, probably called Sedula or Sedulia. It was here...
