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SONCINO

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SONCINO , a See also:

town of See also:Lombardy, See also:Italy, in the See also:province of See also:Cremona, 11 m. E. of See also:Crema by See also:steam See also:tramway, 282 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. (1901), 6150 (town); 8136 (See also:commune). It contains a handsome See also:castle built in 1469—1475 for Galeazzo Maria See also:Sforza by Benedetto Terrini (cf. L. Beltrami, Il See also:Castello di Soncino, See also:Milan, 189o). The town was the seat of a See also:Hebrew See also:printing-See also:press founded in 1472, but suppressed in 1597, when the See also:Jews were expelled from the duchy of Milan.

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