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Rocchetta Nervina

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ269717 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rocchetta Nervina (Ligurian: A Rochetta) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Imperia in the Italian region of Liguria. It is located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Genoa and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of Imperia, on the border with France.

Geography

As of 31 December 2010, Rocchetta Nervina had a population of 275 and an area of 15.1 square kilometres (5.8 mi2).

Rocchetta Nervina borders the following municipalities: Apricale, Breil-sur-Roya (France), Dolceacqua, Isolabona, Pigna and Saorge (France).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rocchetta Nervina” as italian comune. 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—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Rocchetta, Nervina and Italian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as italian comune. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q269717. Authority coordinates are 43.890, 7.600. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rocchetta Nervina” 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.