Barbania is a comune

Comune

In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Turin

Province of Turin

The Province of Turin is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin.It has an area of 6,830 km², and a total population of 2,277,686 . There are 315 comuni in the province – the most of any province in Italy...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, located about 25 km north of Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

. It is in the middle of Malone

Malone

Malone is a family name. From the Irish "Mael Eòin", the name means a servant or a disciple of Saint John.- People with the surname :* Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin, historian and Abbot of Clonmacnoise, died 1127...

 river plain.

Barbania borders the following municipalities: Rivara

Rivara

Rivara is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Canavese area of the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 40 km north of Turin...

, Busano

Busano

Busano is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km north of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,442 and an area of 5.0 km²....

, Rocca Canavese

Rocca Canavese

Rocca Canavese is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km northwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,678 and had an area of 14.2 km²....

, Levone

Levone

Levone is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 30 km northwest of Turin. The first recorded document to mention Levone dates back to 1197...

, and Vauda Canavese

Vauda Canavese

Vauda Canavese is a comune in the Province of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 25 km northwest of Turin. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,505 and an area of 7.2 km²....

. It originates from a Salassi

Salassi

The Salassi were an Alpine tribe whose lands lay on the Italian side of the Little St Bernard Pass across the Graian Alps to Lyons, and the Great St Bernard Pass over the Pennine Alps...

 Celtic village founded around the late 5th century BC. In the Middle Ages it was a free commune

Medieval commune

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 (11th century), until it was conquered by Philip I of Piedmont in 1305; thenceforth its history is connected with the Duchy of Savoy

Duchy of Savoy

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