Distribution

In Italy

Italy

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, it occurs mostly in the areas between Turin

Turin metropolitan area

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 and Milan

Milan metropolitan area

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 and in the area around Rome

Rome metropolitan area

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, with somewhat higher concentrations in Umbria

Umbria

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. The word piccio is a variant of the Italian

Italian language

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 word piccolo, which means "little." Branches of the Piccio family can also be found in Argentina

Argentina

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, France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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, the Philippines

Philippines

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, and the United States

United States

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.

People

Notable members include:

• Giuseppe Piccio, Italian linguist of the Venetian language
  Venetian language
  Venetian or Venetan is a Romance language spoken as a native language by over two million people, mostly in the Veneto region of Italy, where of five million inhabitants almost all can understand it. It is sometimes spoken and often well understood outside Veneto, in Trentino, Friuli, Venezia...
  
  ;
• Pier Ruggero Piccio
  Pier Ruggero Piccio
  Lieutenant General Count Pier Ruggero Piccio , Order of the Crown of Italy, Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Medal of Military Valor, was an Italian aviator and the founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force...
  
  , Italian World War I
  World War I
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   general and founding Chief of Staff of the Italian Air Force
  Aeronautica Militare
  The Italian Air Force is the air force of the Italian Republic. It has held a prominent role in modern Italian military history...
  
  ;
• Rafael Piccio, Italian Football player at SSC Napoli;
• Theodor Piccio, German Engineer;
• Steven Piccio, German Football player at Hertha BSC;
• Vicente Piccio, Jr.
  Vicente Piccio, Jr.
  Vicente M. Piccio is a retired major general of the Philippine Air Force.-Career:Piccio entered the Philippine Air Force Flying School in 1949 and graduated in 1951. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the reserve force, he was assigned as Flight Commander and Instructor at Fernando Air Base in...
  
  , Philippine major general and Marcos
  Ferdinand Marcos
  Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
  
  -era Air Force
  Philippine Air Force
  The Philippine Air Force is the air force of the Republic of the Philippines, and one of the three main services of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Its official name in Filipino is Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas....
  
   Chief.

Piccio is also the first name or pseudonym of:

• Giovanni Carnovali
  Giovanni Carnovali
  Giovanni Carnovali , known as Piccio, was an Italian painter.-Biography:It was in 1815, at the age of just 11, that Carnovali was admitted to the Carrara Academy in Bergamo under the guidance of the director Giuseppe Diotti, who immediately recognised his young pupil’s natural talent...
  
  , Italian painter better known as Il Piccio;
• Danilo “Piccio” Innocenti, Italian athlete;
• Piccio Raffanini, Italian film director.