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Novi Ligure and the area of Novese, by virtue of their geographical location, were during the Middle Ages subject to dispute by several states of that period, such as the Duchy of Milan, the Marchesato del Monferrato and the Republic of Genoa. It was precisely the Republic of Genoa, over the centuries, to increase its influence on the territory of Ninese, governing directly for a long time Novi Ligure And Gavi (which simultaneously became holiday resorts and strategic northern outposts of the Oltregiogo) and indirectly many of the other towns that became Imperial Feudi of the noble Genoese families. The Republic of Genoa fell (1797), the Novese became part of the Ligurian Republic and then in the Department of Genoa of the French Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. Following the Restoration enshrined in the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Novese was placed within the borders of the reconstituted Duchy of Savoy (reborn as an independent sovereign state). On 10 March 1818, the Province of Novi (reflecting the ancient administrative borders of the Novi area) which then survived as a province first until 1847, the year of the Perfect Merger, then within the Kingdom of Sardinia, then until 23 October 1859, when the Rattazzi Decree abolished it, making the territory enter the limits of the Province of Alessandria and therefore in Piemonte, always within the Kingdom of Sardinia.

In the Nineteen there are Ligurian varieties classified as "Oltregiogo centrale": epicentre of this linguistic area is Novi Ligure (see also Novese dialect entry).

• Most of the dialects of the municipalities of Novese can be considered Ligurian, especially those of the area Voltaggio, Gavi, Arquata Scrivia, Grondona and of the middle and high valley Borbera;
• The municipalities of Novese are part of the Liguria ecclesiastical region. Some parishes of these (Parodi Ligure, Bosio, Carrosio, Gavi, Voltaggio, Fraconalto, Rigorous and Sottovalle of Arquata Scrivia And Mongiardino Ligure excluding the parish of Casalbusone) are part of the Archdiocese of Genoa;
• The Ligurian newspaper Il Secolo XIX, edition of the Basso Piemonte, that since 2010 has shortened to the edition Genoa that includes all the Genovesate;
• Seven municipalities in the upper Borbera valley and the two municipalities of Novi Ligure And Parodi Ligure have the adjective "Ligure" added in 1859 after the Decree Rattazzi;
• Serravalle Scrivia is present the largest outlet center of Europe, according to urban styles typical of Basso Piemonte, that is to say both Piedmontese and Ligurian;
• Voltaggio And Fraconalto have the prefix of the district of Genoa (010);
• Voltaggio from 16 July 2005 is an honorary municipality in the Province of Genoa;
• Voltaggio hosts the gnocchi festival with pesto.
• The Italian Arbitration Association Novi Ligure depends on the Ligurian Regional Committee.
• A department of the 157th Infantry Regiment "Leoni di Liguria" that had headquarters in Genoa was present at Novi Ligure.
• Genoese song festival in Serravalle Scrivia in July.
• the municipality of Bosio borders directly with the municipality of Genoa.

Examples of difference between Genoa and Ligurian Ligurian from the Oltregiogo (Delglio dialect) Cabella Ligure in Val Borbera) spoken in the Novese: