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San Canzian d'Isonzo

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ53140 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Canzian d'Isonzo (Bisiacco: Sacanziàn; Friulian: San Canzian; Slovene: Škocjan ob Soči) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Gorizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeast Italy.

The small town is situated about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Gorizia, the capital of the province, and west of the important port of Trieste. Its name refers to the martyrs Cantius, Cantianus, and Cantianilla, who are said to have been beheaded here in 304 AD.

It is also the birthplace of Italian footballer and former AC Milan manager Fabio Capello.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 89-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 Canzian, d'Isonzo and Italian.
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“San Canzian d'Isonzo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Canzian, d'Isonzo and Italian 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 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q53140. VIAF identifies the subject as 148002481. The Library of Congress control number is nb2006009698. Authority coordinates are 45.800, 13.467. 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 “San Canzian d'Isonzo” 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.