Sannazzaro de' Burgondi 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 Pavia

Province of Pavia

The Province of Pavia is a province in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. Pavia is the capital.It has an area of 2,965 km², and a total population of 493,753...

 in the Italian

Italy

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 region Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

, located about 45 km southwest of Milan

Milan

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 and about 20 km southwest of Pavia

Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...

, in Lomellina

Lomellina

The Lomellina is a geographical and historical area in the Pianura Padana of northern Italy, located in south-western Lombardy between the Sesia, Po and Ticino rivers....

, on the Agogna

Agogna

The Agogna is a narrow long river which runs through the Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy. It is a left side tributary of the river Po....

 River.

Sannazzaro de' Burgondi borders the following municipalities: Bastida de' Dossi

Bastida de' Dossi

Bastida de' Dossi is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km southwest of Milan and about 25 km southwest of Pavia...

, Corana

Corana

Corana is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Pavia....

, Dorno

Dorno

Dorno is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 40 km southwest of Milan and about 15 km west of Pavia...

, Ferrera Erbognone

Ferrera Erbognone

Ferrera Erbognone is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 25 km southwest of Pavia...

, Mezzana Bigli

Mezzana Bigli

Mezzana Bigli is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km southwest of Milan and about 25 km southwest of Pavia in the Lomellina traditional region, near the left bank of the Po River and its confluence with the Agogna....

, Pieve Albignola

Pieve Albignola

Pieve Albignola is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Pavia....

, Scaldasole

Scaldasole

Scaldasole is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km southwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 902 and an area of 11.6 km².Scaldasole borders the following municipalities:...

, Silvano Pietra

Silvano Pietra

Silvano Pietra is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km southwest of Milan and about 25 km southwest of Pavia...

.

It is the ancestral home of the Sannazzaro family, who later extended their rule to the Oltrepò Pavese

Oltrepò Pavese

The Oltrepò Pavese is the area of the Province of Pavia, in the north-west Italian region of Lombardy, which lies to the south of the river Po. Extending over an area of c...

 and Montferrat

Montferrat

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. In 1466 Giacomo Malaspina, lord of Massa, became the lord of Sannazzaro; his son Francesco founded the lines of the marquesses of Sannazzaro, which lasted until the abolition of feudalism by the Napoleonic invasion

Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

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 of Italy in 1797. Sannazzaro was part of Savoy

Duchy of Savoy

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 from 1713, and, after its annexation to the unified Italy in 1859, received its current name in 1863.

Sannazzaro, whose economy was once based on the production of tools (wooden and metal screws), is home to one of the largest refineries in Italy, owned by ENI

Eni

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.