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Comunità di Cospaia / Repubblica di Cospaia (archival authority record)

Ministero della Cultura, SIUSA (Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche) · 2026

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Reliability notes: Italian State Archives authority record, text in Italian; read via web search on 23 October 2026 (site not reachable by direct request, so no link is given).

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EstablishedCospaia lay under neither the Papal States nor Tuscany because the boundary agreed after the pledge of Sansepolcro to Florence followed a stream called Rio, and two streams bore that name.EstablishedAccording to the state-archives record, neither government resolved the status of Cospaia by law or force, no tribute was imposed, and the community's only written law was the inscription Perpetua et firma libertas on a church.EstablishedIn the years before 1826 Cospaia's location and fiscal autonomy made it a haven for smugglers, and in 1826 the papal and Tuscan governments agreed to divide it.