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A ''sestiere'' (plural: ''sestieri'') is a subdivision of certain Italian towns and cities. The word is from ''sesto'', or sixth; and is thus used only for towns divided into six districts. The best-known example is the ''sestieri'' of Venice, but Ascoli Piceno, Genoa, Milan and Rapallo, for example, were also divided into ''sestieri''. The medieval Lordship of Negroponte, on the island of Euboea, was also at times divided into six districts, each with a separate ruler, through the arbitration of Venice, which were known as ''sestieri''. The island of Crete, a Venetian colony (the "Kingdom of Candia") from the Fourth Crusade, was also divided into six parts, named after the ''sestieri'' of Venice herself, while the capital Candia retained the status of a ''comune'' of Venice. The island of Burano north of Venice is also subdivided into ''sestieri''. A variation of the word is occasionally found: the ''comune'' of Leonessa, for example, is divided into ''sesti'' or sixths. Other Italian towns with fewer than six official districts are frequently divided into analogous ''quartieri'' (4, whence the English word "quarter" to mean a neighbourhood) or ''terzieri'' (3); some towns merely refer to these neighbourhoods by the non-number-specific ''rioni''. ''Sestieri'', ''quartieri'', ''terzieri'', ''rioni'', and their analogues are usually no longer administrative divisions of these towns, but historical and traditional communities, most often seen in their sharpest relief in the town's annual ''palio''. ==See also== * Frazione * Località * Circoscrizione * Rione * *Rioni of Rome * Terziere * Quartiere 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「Sestiere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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