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[anc. Bergomum] Italian city in Lombardy. It is situated on the Lombard plain c. 50 km north-east of Milan, at the entrance to the Brembana and Seriana valleys and below the first foothills of the Alps. The city (population c. 125,000) is divided into two parts: upper Bergamo (città alta) and lower Bergamo (città bassa), the modern city; the upper part, crowning a steep hill (h. c. 360 m), retains its 16th-century circuit of walls and many fine medieval and early Renaissance buildings. The importance of the Bergamo region emerged only after 1000 BC, when the Po Valley became a focus of commercial travel, especially where the Piedmontese trade routes crossed with those between the valleys and the plain. A pre-urban centre was created in the Etruscan period (6th–4th centuries bc), and under Roman rule Bergamo gained the status of citizenship granted to the centres of Cisalpine Gaul (...