Pegognaga (Lower Mantovano: Pigugnà ga) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italy region of Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about south of Mantua.
History
The name may come from the Latin Pecunius, a Roman aristocrat who, in the 1st century AD founded a little agricultural village. It also might be connected to the word
pecunia, which in Latin means money, richness, referring to the lands of that place that could offer profitable harvests.
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