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'''Borgo''' is an Italian word (plural ''borghi''), cognate with English ''[[borough]]'', German ''Burg'', French ''bourg'', that now usually means the new town outside the walls of an old town (the ''paese''). Very often the ''borgo'' is a distinct ''[[frazione]]'' from the ''paese'', and its name is that of the town with ''Borgo'' added, either before or after: for example, the lower town of [[Trevi]] is ''Borgo Trevi''; the lower town of [[Cerreto di Spoleto]] is ''Cerreto Borgo''.
The word is part of the name of a number of small places throughout Italy, of which the best known is:
* [[Borgo (rione of Rome)]] is the fourteenth rione of Rome.
and among which the following full [[comune|comuni]]:
*[[Borgo a Mozzano]], in the province of Lucca
*[[Borgo d'Ale]], in the province of Vercelli
*[[Borgo di Terzo]], in the province of Bergamo
*[[Borgo Pace]], in the province of Pesaro e Urbino
*[[Borgo Priolo]], in the province of Pavia
*[[Borgo San Dalmazzo]], in the province of Cuneo
*[[Borgo San Giacomo]], in the province of Brescia
*[[Borgo San Giovanni]], in the province of Lodi
*[[Borgo San Lorenzo]], in the province of Florence
*[[Borgo San Martino]], in the province of Alessandria
*[[Borgo San Siro]], in the province of Pavia
*[[Borgo Ticino]], in the province of Novara
*[[Borgo Tossignano]], in the province of Bologna
*[[Borgo Val di Taro]], in the province of Parma
*[[Borgo Valsugana]], in the province of Trento
*[[Borgo Velino]], in the province of Rieti
*[[Borgo Vercelli]], in the province of Vercelli
* [[Borgo, Haute-Corse]] is a commune of the [[Haute-Corse]] ''département'', on the island of [[Corsica]], in France.
[[Borgo Santa Lucia]] is an historic rione in the City of [[Naples]]
The diminutive form of the word is [[borghetto]] ("little borgo"), from which the contracted term [[ghetto]] derived.
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