Cimiano
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Cimiano is a district of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy
Italy
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. It is located within the Zone 3 administrative division, north-east of the city centre. The Milan Metro
Milan Metro
The Milan Metro is the rapid transit system serving Milan, Italy, operated by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi. Milan metro is the longest metro system in Italy, and is the core of the Milan Transportation System...

 (Line 2) stops at Cimiano.

The name "Cimiano" is a contraction of cimiliano, meaning "next to Milan".

The oldest known reference to the settlement is in a 10th Century Lombards
Lombards
The Lombards , also referred to as Longobards, were a Germanic tribe of Scandinavian origin, who from 568 to 774 ruled a Kingdom in Italy...

 manuscript. It was an autonomous comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

until 1757, when it was annexed to Crescenzago
Crescenzago
Crescenzago is a district of Milan, Italy, part of the Zone 2 administrative division, north-east of the city centre. It became part of Milan in 1917; prior to that, it was an independent borgo . The town is traversed by the Naviglio Martesana canal...

, which in turn became part of Milan in 1923.

The Rizzoli
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RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. , based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, new media and digital and satellite TV...

publishing house, one of the major publishing houses in Italy, is based in Cimiano.
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