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Cuneo , city (1991 pop. 55,794), capital of Cuneo prov., Piedmont, NW Italy, on the Stura River, near the Maritime Alps. It is an agricultural and light industrial center and a transportation junction. Manufactures include processed food, metals, beer, and plastics. Silkworms are raised. A possession of the house of Savoy after 1382, Cuneo endured numerous sieges (especially in 1799, when it fell to Austrian and Russian forces).

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Cuneo, Piedmont/Italy Derived from the Latin cuneus with the meaning of a ‘Point on the Ground between Two Rivers’; it lies in the v formed by the confluence of the Stura di Demonte and Gesso Rivers.

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