Fossoli
Fossoli is an Italian village and hamlet of Carpi, a city and municipality of the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna. It is infamous for the eponymous concentration camp and has a population of about 4400.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fossoli camp and Carpi Airport.
Fossoli camp
Memorial
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fossoli camp was a concentration camp in Italy, established during World War II and located in the village of Fossoli, Carpi, Emilia-Romagna. It began as a prisoner of war camp in 1942, later being a Jewish concentration camp, then a police and transit camp, a labour collection centre for Germany and, finally, a refugee camp before closing in 1970.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Migliarina and Rovereto sulla Secchia.
Migliarina
Village
Photo: Stedisco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Migliarina is a village, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Fossoli.
Rovereto sulla Secchia
Village
Photo: Mirtillause, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rovereto sulla Secchia is a village, which is situated 6 km east of Fossoli.
Novi di Modena
Town
Photo: Il Many, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Novi di Modena is a comune in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 kilometres northwest of Bologna and about 25 kilometres north of Modena in the Pianura Padana. Novi di Modena is situated 8 km north of Fossoli.
Fossoli
- Type: Village with 3,580 residents
- Description: Italian village
- Categories: frazione and locality
- Location: Carpi, Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
44.82242° or 44° 49′ 21″ northLongitude
10.8892° or 10° 53′ 21″ eastPopulation
3,580Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
8FPGRVCQ+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1984006621OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
8629152Wikidata ID
Q2494879
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Turkish—“Fossoli” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Фосоли (Модена)”
- Chechen: “Фосоли”
- Dutch: “Fossoli”
- French: “Fossoli”
- Hebrew: “פוסולי”
- Hungarian: “Fossoli”
- Italian: “Fossoli di Carpi”
- Italian: “Fossoli”
- Persian: “فوسلی”
- Serbian: “Фосоли”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fossoli, Modena”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fossoli”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوسلی”
- Tatar: “Фосоли (Модена)”
- Tatar: “Фосоли”
- Turkish: “Fossoli”
- “Fòsel”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fossoli”. Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0.