EXAMINING PATTERNS OF ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO ...

Emilia Romagna
Bologna 1
2
Reggio Emilia 1
(0.07%)
Campania Napoli 1 1
(0.03%)
Sicilia Trapani 1 1
(0.03%)
TOTAL 2,839
2.8 Emigration from Toscana and Piemonte
The data clearly show a predominance of immigrants coming from two single
provinces, Torino and Lucca, of two different regions, Piemonte and Toscana.
The maps below (Figure VI and VII) show respectively the position of the Italian
regions and the approximate borders of the provinces in each region. Piemonte is one of the
Northern regions of Italy, Toscana is considered Central or Northern-central Italy. The city
and province of Torino is in the northern part of Piemonte (see map of the provinces, number
seven). The city and province of Lucca is in the central part of Toscana, with some of the
territories on the Tirrenian Sea (see map of the provinces, number fifty-one). The boundaries
of the provinces have been changed through the years and provinces have been added. In both
Lucca and Torino, some cities and small villages now belong to new provinces. 27 Therefore,
in dealing with the data, we have to consider that. Nonetheless, municipalities and villages
from whom most of the Italian emigrants to the Houghton County came still remain in the
same region.
2.8.1 Lucca
Lucca is one of the ten provinces of Toscana. It stretches for about 1,772 square
kilometers and it is comprised between the Ligurian and Tirrenian Seas, the chain of
Appennino Tosco-emiliano, and the valley of Arno.
Nowadays the province itself, besides the city of Lucca, has a population of about
380,000 inhabitants divided among about thirty-five municipalities (see Appendix IV for a
complete list).
27 For example in 1923 some villages previously included in the province of Lucca passed to that of Pistoia.
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