ISTAT - Italian administrative limits

List of Italian Municipalities historicized since 1861 on an ISTAT basis. It keeps track of changes in municipal entities that have occurred over time, in particular: - variations of the ISTAT code of the Municipality - change in the name of the municipality - variation of the Province of the Municipality - change in the name of the Province The information comes from two distinct sources: in addition to ISTAT, in fact, the ministerial source has been integrated (through the Territory Agency) for the assignment of the National Code (or Belfiore or Cadastre). Decoding of fields: - r_status: 1=current 2=modified 0=cessed. N.B.: status 2=modified refers to the variation of ISTAT municipality, common name, ISTAT province, name province, acronym province, region - id_comune_next: When r_status=2 points to the next ID - id_comune_prev: Point to the previous ID if the record for the municipality has changed. Source ISTAT - Ministry of Economy and Finance - Agenzia del Territorio.