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LAVAGNA

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAVAGNA  , a seaport of

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Liguria,
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Italy, in the
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province of
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Genoa, from which it is 252 M . S.E. by
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rail . Pop . (1901) 7005 . It has a small
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shipbuilding
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trade, and exports
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great quantities of
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slate (lavagna, taking its name from the
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town) . It also has a large
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cotton-
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mill . It was the seat of the
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Fieschi
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family,
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independent
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counts, who, at the end of the 12th
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century, were obliged to recognize the supremacy of Genoa . Sinibaldo Fieschi became
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Pope
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Innocent IV . (1243-1254), and
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Hadrian V . (1276) was also a Fieschi .

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