Organization
The Black Brigades were not actually brigade-sized units. The Italian word brigata has a looser meaning as a synonym of "group" or "assembly". The Black Brigades were typically weak battalions or strong companies, each comprising 200 to 300 men. There were 41 territorial brigades. The territorial brigades were numbered 1 through 41. There were also seven "independent" and eight "mobile" brigades. The mobile brigades were numbered 1 through 7, plus the Second Arditi Brigade.
- Piedmont Regional Inspectorate
- I Brigata Nera "Ather Capelli" Turin
- II Brigata Nera "Attilio Prato" Alessandria
- III Brigata Nera "Emilio Picot" Aosta
- IV Brigata Nera "Luigi VIale" Asti
- V Brigata Nera "Carlo Lidonnici" Cuneo
- VI Brigata Nera "Augusto Cristina" Novara
- VII Brigata Nera "Bruno Ponzecchi" Vercelli
- Lombardy Regional Inspectorate
- VIII Brigata Nera "Aldo Resega" Milan
- IX Brigata Nera "Giuseppe Cortesi" Bergamo
- X Brigata Nera "Enrico Tognu" Brescia
- XI Brigata Nera "Cesare Rodini" Como
- XII Brigata Nera "Augusto Felisari" Cremona
- XIII Brigata Nera "Marcello Turchetti" Mantua
- XIV Brigata Nera "Alberto Alfieri" Pavia
- XV Brigata Nera "Sergio Gatti" Sondrio
- XVI Brigata Nera "Dante Gervasini" Varese
- Veneto regional Inspectorate
- XVII Brigata Nera "Bartolomeo Asara" Venice
- XVIII Brigata Nera "Luigi Begon" Padua
- XIX Brigata Nera "Romolo Gori" Rovigo
- XX Brigata Nera "Francesco Cappellini" Treviso
- XXI Brigata Nera "Stefano Rizzardi" Verona
- XXII Brigata Nera "Antonio Faggion" Vicenza
- Emilia Regional Inspectorate
- XXIII Brigata Nera "Eugenio Facchini" Bologna
- XXIV Brigata Nera "Igino Ghisellini" Ferrara
- XXV Brigata Nera "Arturo Capanni" Forlì
- XXVI Brigata Nera "Mirko Pistoni" Modena
- XXVII Brigata Nera "Virginio Gavazzoli" Parma
- XXVIII Brigata Nera "Pippo Astorri" Piacenza
- XXIX Brigata Nera "Ettore Muti" Ravenna
- XXX Brigata Nera "Umberto Rosi" Reggio Emilia
- Liguria Regional Inspectorate
- XXXI Brigata Nera "Generale Silvio Parodi" Genoa
- XXXII Brigata Nera "Antonio Padoan" Imperia
- XXXIII Brigata Nera "Tullio Bertoni" La Spezia
- XXXIV Brigata Nera "Giovanni Briatore" Savona
- Tuscany Black Brigades
- XXXV Brigata Nera "Don Emilio Spinelli" Arezzo
- XXXVI Brigata Nera "Benito Mussolini" Lucca
- XXXVII Brigata Nera "Emilio Tanzi" Pisa
- XXXVIII Brigata Nera "Ruy Blas Biagi" Pistoia
- IXL Brigata Nera Siena
- XL Brigata Nera "Vittorio Ricciarelli" Apuania
- XLI Brigata Nera "Raffaele Manganiello" Florence
- Mobile Black Brigades Grouping
- I Brigata Nera Mobile "Vittorio Ricciarelli" Milan
- II Brigata Nera Mobile "Danilo Mercuri" Padua
- III Brigata Nera Mobile "Attilio Pappalardo" Bologna
- IV Brigata Nera Mobile "Aldo Resega" Dronero-Cuneo
- V Brigata Nera Mobile "Enrico Quagliata" Val Camonica
- VI Brigata Nera Mobile "Dalmazia" Milan
- VII Brigata Nera Mobile "Tevere" Milan
- II Brigata Nera Mobile Arditi Milan
- Autonomous Black Brigades
- Brigata Nera Autonoma "Giovanni Gentile"
- Brigata Nera Autonoma Operativa "Giuseppe Garibaldi"
- Brigata Nera Autonoma Ministeriale
- Brigata Nera Autonoma - Marche
- Brigata Nera Autonoma - Gorizia
- Brigata Nera Autonoma - Udine
- Brigata Nera Autonoma "Tullio Cividino" - Trieste
- Outremer Autonomous Black Brigades
- Compagnia Complementare Fascisti - Rhodes
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