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Originally Posted by angieh
It is a city in Lombardy. That's all I can find.
"city, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy. It lies along the Olona River just northwest of Milan. Its Renaissance-style Church of Santa Maria di Piazza (1515–23) was designed by Donato Bramante. Busto Arsizio has experienced considerable industrial growth in the 20th century and is an important textile centre (especially for cotton), with diversified manufacturing. Pop. (2006 est.) mun., 79,552." Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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This slash-and-burn practice, known as "debbio" in Italian, aimed to create fields where grapevines or cereals such as foxtail, millet and rye were grown, or just to create open spaces where stone huts with thatched roofs were built. By doing this they created a bustum (burnt, in Latin), that is a new settlement which, in order to be distinguished from the other nearby settlements, was assigned a name: arsicium (again "burnt", or better "arid") for Busto Arsizio, whose name is actually a tautology; carulfė for nearby Busto Garolfo, cava for Busto Cava, later Buscate.
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