Within Cosa Nostra a mandamento is a district of generally three geographically contiguous Mafia families in Sicily. A capo mandamento representing the mandamento is usually entitled to be part of the provincial Mafia Commission.

References

• Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style (2003) Letizia Paoli, Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-515724-6
• Cosa Nostra. A history of the Sicilian Mafia (2004) John Dickie, Coronet, ISBN 978-0-340-82435-1

External links

• Mafia glossary