History by themes 

In this section, with its subsections, you will find the contributions of history buffs, the actual documents and specific topics  attributable to a longer time, determined by the economic system that rather than the city has shaped the countryside, the landscape .

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Our intent is to present  all the different "perspectives"  with which we can reconstruct the "history" of our country. The "short time" in fact,  guideline of the research reported  in the subsections described above,  gives us back  a story focused on the birth and history of the main agglomeration of Fratta / Umbertide, but  there  allows you to see only  institutional-political events, however much they can be added together  in a millenary diachronic sequence.  

While the development and consequences of economic structures need to be recognized  an investigation you seek  with a  "long time. So it appears to us  it is essential to reflect on the lining,  the basic economic cell of the agricultural world for centuries,  together with the territory that becomes a "landscape", slowly modified for centuries by generations of men and women. The sections of the " Gregorian Cadastre " and " Territory and Mezzadria " have the claim to analyze the "long times" with complex processes  that have transformed our territory. This historical cut inevitably extends the object of study to the entire Tiber Valley and Central Italy, from which we have to "cut out" our specific space of interest. Space that has followed the typical historical processes, always of central Italy, also for what concerns the "sociolinguistic" perspective ... and here is the section that tries to investigate our " Dialect ". Section  that he will not have to deal with reporting idioms or the language of common use, but will have to show how the "dialect" is a historical stratification.

Finally we want to return to our country by analyzing what has distinguished it the most: water and road networks. " The Tiber and the water mills of the territory ", because rising on the banks of the great river has characterized the layout of the urban agglomeration with its  strategic value, ways of life and use of  agricultural land; The great dam on the Tiber , the work of Mario, Marco and Matteo Tosti, brings back to "life" an impressive hydraulic work of medieval Fratta; " Railway " that passing through Umbertide, as for other places in the Umbrian plain,  changed the fate of the city.

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Some profiles of historical figures have been included in the subsection " Biographies  Historical ", alongside it is a page of historical biographies of the twentieth century .

To complete the claim to have an overall historical look, the section on  " Castle and rural lordships " and that relating to " Monuments and Museums " which will have to highlight the works of art of our residential nucleus and its territory, "symbols" of identity for  all of us. among the works of art could not miss an in-depth analysis and rich in archive materials on the Deposition of Signorelli, granted by professor Valentina Ricci Vitiani.

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