Italian infantry regiment names and geographic area

[geahanse]

We're Italian soldiers from the geographical area in which their infantry regiment is named? i.e, a soldier from the 91st infantry regiment 'Basilicata' from the Basilicata region of Italy? I was curious if the Italian Army kept soldiers from the same areas in the same units kind of like the Wehrmacht did with Wehrkries?

[Urmel]

I understand this was not the case. The name of the division and the seat of its replacement depots were not correlated.

[Dili]

No most of the time.

[Lupo Solitario]

in general terms: an italian infantry unit usually had the name of a place, was garrisoned in another and took coscripts (at least in peacetime) from three-four districts different from first two....

Example: the division "Cremona" (a city in Lombardy) was garrisoned at Leghorn (west Tuscany) and took people from Calabria....

[David W]

Hi Lupo.

Long time, no see!

Best wishes,
David.

[Lupo Solitario]

tempo vene ki sale e ki descende (medioeval italian: there's a time to go up and a time to go down )