Fossa

Italian comune
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Summary

Fossa is a comune of Italy[1]. Fossa ranks in the top 1% of comune of italy entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (287 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Province of L'Aquila[3]
  • Country: Italy[4]
  • Capital: Fossa[5]
  • Shares border with: Barisciano[6], L'Aquila[7], Ocre[8], Poggio Picenze[9], Sant'Eusanio Forconese[10]
  • Postal code: 67020[11]
  • Commons category: Fossa[12]
  • Licence plate code: AQ[13]
  • Patron saint: Clement I[14]
  • Local dialing code: 0862[15]
  • Official website: https://comune.fossa.aq.it[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fossa, Abruzzo[17]
  • Population: 721[18], 705[19], 672[20]
  • Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa[21]
  • Official name: Fossa[22]
  • Category for people born here: Q18757333[23]
  • Demonym: fossolani[24]
  • Elevation above sea level: 644 m[25]
  • Area: 8.71 km²[26]
  • Seismic classification: 2[27]

Why It Matters

Fossa has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Fossa is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Italian National Institute of Statistics. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . demo.istat.it. Retrieved . demo.istat.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . demo.istat.it. demo.istat.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . istat.it. Retrieved . istat.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Seismic classification in Italy. Retrieved . rischi.protezionecivile.gov.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8h ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 48
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'azb', 'bcl', 'bg', 'br', 'ce', 'ceb', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||vec, an */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular population → Data:Historical population Fossa.tab
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Tabular population: Data:Historical population Fossa.tab, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/263412|batch #263412]]"
  3. 17w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Fossa, Abruzzo
    Instance of → —
    Seismic classification → 2
    Image last checked license → —
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/35860|batch #35860]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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