Insubria
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Insubria was a territory north of River Po, which extended between its tributaries the Adda and the Sesia, up to the Alps around Saint Gotthard. (Today this area would correspond to the Italian provinces of Varese, Como, and Verbano Cusio Ossola and the Swiss canton of Ticino.) It was home to a Celtic people known as the Insubres.
During the middle-ages the name referred to a similar area governed by the Duchy of Milan.
The historical emblem of Insubria is the blue child-swallowing serpent of the Visconti (the biscone), quartered with the eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.
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