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Corriere del Ticino

regional Swiss newspaper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ1135346 ↗
Source-derived summary

Corriere del Ticino is a regional daily newspaper in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

History and profile

Corriere del Ticino was established in 1891. The paper is published in the Italian language in Muzzano, Ticino.

The paper sold 14,000 copies in 1967. In the early 1990s Corriere del Ticino had a circulation of 36,000 copies. In 1997 the paper had a circulation of 37,742 copies.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Corriere del Ticino” as regional Swiss newspaper. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1891, 1967, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1891. The account is most persuasive where Corriere, Ticino and regional can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as regional Swiss newspaper. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1135346. VIAF identifies the subject as 140145542663496642167. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1891, 1967 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Corriere del Ticino” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.