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Goito (Upper Mantovano: ) is a comune with a population of 10,005 in the Province of Mantua in Lombardy. Goito is north of Mantua on the road leading to Brescia and Lake Garda, and straddles the old east–west Via Postumia between Cremona and Verona. The town is on the right bank of the Mincio River at a key crossing. The birthplace of Sordello, Goito is part of the historic region known as Alto Mantovano (Upper Mantua) and was the site of a notable fortress.

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Goito is a small town in northern Italy with about 10,000 residents, located strategically on the Mincio River between Mantua and Lake Garda along an ancient trade route. It matters historically as the birthplace of Sordello and the site of a notable fortress, and it remains part of the culturally significant Upper Mantua region.

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Italian comune.name
Goito
Italian comune.official_name
Comune di Goito
Italian comune.image_skyline
Stanislao Grimaldi Dal Poggetto - primo combattimento di Goito -litografia -ca.1860.JPG
Italian comune.image_alt
Drawing of a battle
Italian comune.image_caption
Fight between Austrians and Piedmontese over the Mincio bridge in Goito on 8 April 1848. In the time Of Virgil, Goito was called Andes.
Italian comune.image_shield
Goito-Stemma.svg
Italian comune.shield_alt
The Goito coat of arms
Italian comune.shield_size
px
Italian comune.map_alt
Map of Itality, with Goito in the north
Italian comune.region
Lombardy
Italian comune.province
Mantua (MN)
Italian comune.frazioni
Cerlongo, Solarolo, Marsiletti, Torre, Sacca, Calliero, Vasto, Massimbona, Belvedere, Ca'Vecchia Gobbi, Maglia, Sagrada 1, Borgo Diciotto, Ca' Vagliani, Cascina Palazzetto, Catapane, Aquilone, Terra Nera, Isola, Tezze Vasto, Ronziolo, Barattere, Villabona, Baronina, Loghino, Corte Bellacqua di Sotto, Corte Grandi, Corte Quaresima Vecchia, Sagrada II, Valle Buratto, Cascina Bondi, Corte Bellacqua di Sopra, San Lorenzo, Corte Merlesco, Corte Resenasco
Italian comune.mayor
Pietro Chiaventi
Italian comune.area_total_km2
79.22
Italian comune.population_total
10289
Italian comune.population_as_of
31 August 2017
Italian comune.population_demonym
Goitesi
Italian comune.elevation_m
33

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Goito
Demonym
goitesi
Population
10027
Area
79.22
Elevation
33
Official website
www.comune.goito.mn.it
Image
Stanislao Grimaldi Dal Poggetto - primo combattimento di Goito -litografia -ca.1860.JPG
Dialing code
0376
Licence plate code
MN
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Commons category
Goito
postal code
46044
native label
Goito
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22 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Antiquity
  • Early Middle Ages
  • High Middle Ages
  • The Renaissance
  • {{anchor|The War of the Mantuan Succession}}War of the Mantuan Succession
  • {{anchor|The Eighteenth Century}}18th century
  • Napoleonic Wars
  • {{anchor|Risorgimento 1815-1861}}Unification of Italy (1815–1861)
  • {{anchor|Goito as the border crossing between Italy and Austria 1861-1866}}Italy-Austria border crossing (1861–1866)
  • {{anchor|Goito in Liberal Italy 1866-1919}}Liberal Italy (1866-1919)
  • {{anchor|Fascism in Goito 1919-1943}}Fascism (1919–1943)
  • {{anchor|The Second World War and the Resistance}}World War II and resistance
  • {{anchor|Goito in the First Republic}}First Republic (1948–1994)
  • {{anchor|Goito in the Second Republic}}Second Republic (1994–present)
  • Notable sites
  • {{anchor|Religious edifices}}Churches
  • {{anchor|Military edifices}}Castles
  • Civic landmarks
  • {{anchor|Twin towns}}Twin town
  • References

Goito (Upper Mantovano: ) is a comune with a population of 10,005 in the Province of Mantua in Lombardy. Goito is north of Mantua on the road leading to Brescia and Lake Garda, and straddles the old east–west Via Postumia between Cremona and Verona. The town is on the right bank of the Mincio River at a key crossing. The birthplace of Sordello, Goito is part of the historic region known as Alto Mantovano (Upper Mantua) and was the site of a notable fortress.

==Etymology== Goito generally indicates an area of Gothic settlement, and is a common toponym in Italy; a similar example is godega. In 1902, Italian legal scholar Nino Tamassia published a document from 1045 which was brought to his attention by scholar F. C. Carreri and indicated that at least some of Goito's inhabitants said that they still lived "according to Gothic law" ("qui professimus legem vivere Gothorum"). Local histories by Federico Amedei, Livio Calafassi and Giovanni Tassoni have agreed on the toponym's Gothic origin. Historian Pietro Pelati, however, said that the name drives from guttus (a Latin term for a water vase, often indicating a settlement by a river).

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