Town with no names

Residents of an Italian town have won the right to add words like ‘fat’, ‘mad’ and ‘bean’ to their names. Many people dwelling in Chioggia, near Venice, have used nicknames to distinguish between each other for centuries – as the town’s population shares only a handful of surnames – but it is only now that they have legally won the right to use them.

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Town with no names

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