Fractions

The fraction in Italian administrative geography and an administrative entity belonging to a municipality, consisting of “an area of the municipal territory comprising, as a rule, an inhabited centre, as well as inhabited areas or houses scattered around the centre”; this gravitation exists when the inhabitants of the scattered nuclei and houses are attracted to the centre, that is, they want to compete in it for reasons of supply, worship, education, work, business and the like; in rare cases a fraction can also belong to two or more different commons It can also be a territorial district意大利行政区划语境下的分区（frazione）是隶属于市镇的行政单元，其指市镇辖域内的一片区域，通常包含一处居住核心区，以及环绕该核心区分布的零散聚居区域或住宅；当零散聚居点与住宅的居民因物资供给、宗教礼拜、教育、就业、经商等各类缘由，对该居住核心区产生向心力时，即构成此类行政分区。在极少数情况下，一个分区亦可隶属于两个及以上不同的市镇，其亦可作为一处地域片区存在。