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Dossena

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ101032 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dossena (Bergamasque: Doséna; Latin: Dorsum) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Milan and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Bergamo.

Dossena borders the following municipalities: Lenna, Roncobello, San Giovanni Bianco, San Pellegrino Terme, Serina. The parish church (15th century) has paintings by Paolo Veronese.

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“Dossena” enters the record as italian comune. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dossena, Italian and comune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dossena, Italian and comune.
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“Dossena” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dossena, Italian and comune provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q101032. VIAF identifies the subject as 151587960. The Library of Congress control number is no98112003. Authority coordinates are 45.883, 9.700. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dossena” 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.