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Roddi

Italian comune

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ20425 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roddi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southeast of Turin and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) northeast of Cuneo.

As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,426 and an area of 9.4 square kilometres (3.6 mi2).

Roddi borders the following municipalities: Alba, La Morra, Monticello d'Alba, Santa Vittoria d'Alba, and Verduno.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Roddi” is italian comune. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Roddi, Italian and comune, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Roddi, Italian and comune is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “italian comune” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20425. Authority coordinates are 44.683, 7.967. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roddi” 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.