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Soncino
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Cremona, i i m. E. of Crema by steam tramway, 282 ft. above sea-level. Pop. (1901), 6150 (town); 8136 (commune). It contains a handsome castle built in1469-1475for Galeazzo Maria Sforza by Benedetto Terrini (cf. L. Beltrami, Il Castello di Soncino, Milan, 1890). The town was the seat of a Hebrew printing-press founded in 1472, but suppressed in 1597, when the Jews were expelled from the duchy of Milan.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Soncino'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/soncino.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Soncino'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/soncino.html. 1910.
