contado

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  The land controlled by a medieval Italian city-state lying outside the city itself; the hinterland; the countryside under the control of a city.
 * 2) *2011,, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin 2012, p. 65:
 * Milan was the most aggressive and successful of the mainland states. It was also one of the richest, its prosperity extended into its contado by canals and irrigation.
 * 1) *2014, Ole Jørgen Benedictow, The Complete History of the Black Death, p. 704:
 * The population of the contado at the time may be tentatively estimated on the basis of Giovanni Villani's information that, in 1338, it contained 80,000 men fit to bear arms, more than three times the number in Florence city (25,000).

Etymology
From, from. .

Noun

 * 1)  county territory of a count
 * 2)  territory under the jurisdiction of a comune
 * 3) the countryside surrounding a city; the inhabitants of such countryside
 * 1) the countryside surrounding a city; the inhabitants of such countryside

Adjective

 * 1) counted
 * 2) few