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Closed or limited neighborhood for a community, where confinement is imposed directly or indirectly. The name originated in the neighborhoods where Jews were confined in different cities of Italy, for political or simply racist reasons. Its etymology is still disputed; a transliteration of the Italian ghetto is certain, and most likely it comes from an apheresis of borghetto ("little village"), although there is also the word geto ("metal smelting"), from gettare ("to throw, to throw") which in Venice was the name of a metallurgical plant and then a walled arsenal, in the area of the city where in the early sixteenth century the closed neighborhood was created for Jewish refugees expelled by the Spanish crown with papal support.

  

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