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Cento is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Ferrara, part of the region Emilia-Romagna (northern Italy). In Italian "cento" means 100. ==History== The name Cento is a reference to the centuriation of the Po Valley. Cento's growth from its origin as a little fishing village in the marshes to an established farming town took place in the first few centuries in the second millennium. The Bishop of Bologna and the Abbot of Nonantola established the Partecipanza Agraria, an institution in which land would perpetually be redistributed every twenty years among the male heirs of the families who constituted the initial core of the community in the 12th century.〔(Statute of Partecipanza Agraria (Italian) )〕 In 1502 Pope Alexander VI took it away from the dominion of the Bishop of Bologna and made it part of the dowry of his daughter Lucrezia Borgia, betrothed to Duke Alfonso I d'Este and was later returned to the Papal States in 1598. South-east of the city lies the small historic fortification of Pieve di Cento. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cento」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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