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Italy did not become a united country until Before that, there were various autonomous regions, and to this day many Italians still strongly identify with those regions. From picturesque Tuscany to rugged Sicily, you will learn all of Italy’s regions by taking this geography quiz. If you do not get them all on the first try, play this free map quiz game again. The provinces of Italy Italian : province d'Italia are the second-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic , on an intermediate level between a municipality comune and a region regione.
Since , provinces have been classified as "institutional bodies of second level".
There are currently institutional bodies of second level in Italy, including 80 ordinary provinces, 2 autonomous provinces, 4 regional decentralization entities, 6 free municipal consortia, and 14 metropolitan cities , as well as the Aosta Valley region which also exercises the powers of a province. Italian provinces with the exception of the current Sardinian provinces correspond to the NUTS 3 regions.
A province of the Italian Republic is composed of many municipalities comune. Usually several provinces together form a region; the region of Aosta Valley is the sole exception—it is not subdivided into provinces, and provincial functions are exercised by the region. The number of provinces in Italy has been steadily growing in recent years, as many new ones are carved out of older ones. Usually, the province's name is the same as that of its capital city.
According to the reform, each province is headed by a President or Commissioner assisted by a legislative body, the Provincial Council, and an executive body, the Provincial Executive. President Commissioner and members of Council are elected together by mayors and city councilors of each municipality of the province. The Executive is chaired by the President Commissioner who appoint others members, called assessori.
Since , the President Commissioner and other members of the council will not receive a salary. In each province, there is also a Prefect prefetto , a representative of the central government who heads an agency called prefettura-ufficio territoriale del governo.
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The Questor questore is the head of State Police Polizia di Stato in the province and his office is called questura. There is also a provincial police force depending from local government, called provincial police polizia provinciale. The Aosta Valley region is not divided into provinces due to its size, but straight to the comune level. Based on the most recent legislation, contained in the law of 7 April n.
There are other types of entities similar to the provinces in the regions with special statutes: the free municipal consortia in Sicily and the Sardinian provinces are governed by extraordinary commissioners appointed by the respective regional administrations, the autonomous provinces of Trentino-Alto Adige each elect its own president, and finally, in Aosta Valley , the functions of the province are carried out by the regional administration whose president is elected by the regional council.
In , at the birth of the Kingdom of Italy , there were 59 provinces. Eventually, in , following the union of Rome and its province from the Papal States , the provinces rose in number to After the World War I , new territories were annexed to Italy. The province of Trento was created in Provinces of La Spezia and Trieste in , while Ionio in In the new provinces of Fiume , Pola , and Zara were created, increasing the total number of provinces in Italy to In , after a royal charter , [ Note 1 ] a general province rearrangement took place.
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In the same year, the province of Caserta was dissolved, Girgenti was renamed Agrigento , and the institution of circondari , sub-provincial wards created before the unification , was abolished. Province of Littoria Latina was created in , and the province of Asti in Following the annexation of a part of Yugoslavia in , during the World War II , the province of Zara was enlarged and joined the Governorate of Dalmatia comprising the province of Zara , and the new provinces of Spalato , and Cattaro , while in the occupied central part of the present-day Slovenia the new province of Ljubljana was created.
This lasted only until , when Yugoslavia regained the lost territories after the end of the World War II. Moreover, the province of Trieste was occupied by United States and British forces. The Italian Republic therefore had 91 provinces at its birth. The province of Ionio was renamed as Taranto in , and in the province of Trieste was returned to Italy. The province of Pordenone was created in , the province of Isernia in , and the province of Oristano in In three further provinces were created: Monza and Brianza , Fermo , and Barletta-Andria-Trani , making a total of provinces.
In May , a referendum abolished the eight provinces of Sardinia, and this suppression was to take effect on 1 March On 6 July , new plans were published to reduce the number of provinces by around half. In the Delrio Law [ 16 ] transformed the provinces of Italy in a reduced number of broader administrative entities. In the Friuli-Venezia Giulia of Debora Serracchiani was the first Italian region to pass a law for abolishing its provinces, while implementing the national reform in the local administrative level.
Provinces are often deemed useless by its critics, and many proposals have been made in the s to eliminate them. In , during his speech to the Chamber of Deputies, Enrico Letta , the newly appointed Prime Minister of Italy , announced that a revision of the second part of the constitution was needed, in order to change the bicameral parliamentary system and to abolish the provinces. The proposal, presented during the Renzi government , was rejected in the Italian constitutional referendum held on 4 December.
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