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Po (river)

Index Po (river)

The Po (Padus and Eridanus; Po; ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus; Πάδος, Ἠριδανός) is a river that flows eastward across northern Italy. [1]

151 relations: Adda (river), Adria, Adriatic Sea, Adriatic Veneti, African Plate, Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Agogna, Alessandria, Alfonsine, Alpine orogeny, Amber, Aquifer, Arda (Italy), Argenta, Emilia–Romagna, Avestan, Baltic Sea, Benzoylecgonine, Biodiversity, Bolzano, Canyon, Celts, Cereal, Cervia, Channel (geography), Chioggia, Cisalpine Gaul, Cocaine, Codigoro, Comacchio, Comune, Cottian Alps, Cremona, Crissolo, Dora Baltea, Dora Riparia, Earth, Eel, Elsevier, Emilia-Romagna, Enza, Eridanos (river of Hades), Eridanus (constellation), Etruscan civilization, Eurasian Plate, European Environment Agency, European Union, Eutrophication, Excretion, Ferrara, Ficarolo, ..., France, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Goro, Emilia–Romagna, Greek language, Greek mythology, Herodotus, Irrigation, Italy, Lambro, Last Glacial Maximum, Latin, Leonardo da Vinci, Levee, Ligures, Ligurian language (ancient), List of rivers by length, Maira, Malone (river), Mantua, Marine transgression, Mesola, Messinian, Messinian salinity crisis, Milan, Mincio, Miocene, Montane ecosystems, Monte Viso, Monteu da Po, Monticelli d'Ongina, Natural History (Pliny), Navigli, Nure, Oglio, Old Irish, Orco, Orogeny, Ostellato, Panaro (river), Pannonia, Parma, Parma (river), Pausanias (geographer), Pellice, Phaethon, Piacenza, Piedmont, Piz Lunghin, Pleistocene, Pliny the Elder, Pliocene, Po Valley, Polybius, Porto Tolle, Porto Viro, Progradation, Proto-Indo-European language, Province of Piacenza, Ravenna, Regions of Italy, Reno (river), Republic of Venice, Rice, Rimini, River delta, River source, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Sanskrit, Scrivia, Secchia, Sesia, Strait of Gibraltar, Stura di Lanzo, Switzerland, Taglio di Po, Tanaro, Taro (river), Tethys Ocean, Ticino (river), Toponymy, Trebbia, Trento, Tributary, Turin, Umbri, UNESCO, Urine, Valle Po, Varaita, Veneto, Venice, Versa (Po), Via Aemilia, Villasanta, Volano, Water Framework Directive 2000, Witenwasserenstock, World Heritage site, Year, 45th parallel north. Expand index (101 more) »

Adda (river)

The Adda (Latin Abdua, or Addua; in Lombard Ada or, again, Adda in local dialects where the double consonants are marked) is a river in North Italy, a tributary of the Po.

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Adria

Adria is a town and comune in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of Northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po.

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula.

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Adriatic Veneti

The Veneti (in Latin, also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.

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African Plate

The African Plate is a major tectonic plate straddling the equator as well as the prime meridian.

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Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata

The Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) is the leading wire service in Italy, and one of the leaders among world news agencies.

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Agogna

The Agogna (in Piedmontese Agògna) is a stream which runs through the Italian regions of Piedmont and Lombardy.

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Alessandria

Alessandria (Piedmontese: Lissandria) is a city and comune in Piedmont, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Alessandria.

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Alfonsine

Alfonsine (Agl'infulsẽ or Agl'infulsèn) is a comune (municipality) in the province of Ravenna in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.

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Alpine orogeny

The Alpine orogeny or Alpide orogeny is an orogenic phase in the Late Mesozoic (Eoalpine) and the current Cenozoic that has formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt.

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Amber

Amber is fossilized tree resin, which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Arda (Italy)

The Arda is a torrent of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, nearly all of its course being within the province of Piacenza.

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Argenta, Emilia–Romagna

Argenta (Argentano: Arzènta) is a town and comune in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna.

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Avestan

Avestan, also known historically as Zend, is a language known only from its use as the language of Zoroastrian scripture (the Avesta), from which it derives its name.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.

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Benzoylecgonine

Benzoylecgonine is the main metabolite of cocaine.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.

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Bolzano

Bolzano (or; German: Bozen (formerly Botzen),; Balsan or Bulsan; Bauzanum) is the capital city of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy.

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Canyon

A canyon (Spanish: cañón; archaic British English spelling: cañon) or gorge is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'' for different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities, although the relationship between ethnic, linguistic and cultural factors in the Celtic world remains uncertain and controversial.

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Cereal

A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.

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Cervia

Cervia (Ziria) is a affluent town and comune (municipality) in the province of Ravenna in the region of Emilia-Romagna in Italy.

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Channel (geography)

In physical geography, a channel is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path of relatively shallow and narrow body of fluid, most commonly the confine of a river, river delta or strait.

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Chioggia

Chioggia (Venetian: Cióxa, Latin: Clodia) is a coastal town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

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Cisalpine Gaul

Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina), also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata, was the part of Italy inhabited by Celts (Gauls) during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

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Cocaine

Cocaine, also known as coke, is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.

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Codigoro

Codigoro (Ferrarese: Codgòr) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northeast of Bologna and about east of Ferrara.

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Comacchio

Comacchio (Comacchiese: Cmâc') is a town and comune of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, from the provincial capital Ferrara.

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Comune

The comune (plural: comuni) is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

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Cottian Alps

The Cottian Alps (Alpes Cottiennes; Alpi Cozie); are a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps.

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Cremona

Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana (Po Valley).

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Crissolo

Crissolo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southwest of Turin and about northwest of Cuneo, on the border with France.

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Dora Baltea

Dora Baltea or Doire Baltée (Duria maior or Duria Bautica; Djouire (Valdôtain); Deura Bàotia), is a river in northern Italy.

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Dora Riparia

The Dora Riparia (Duria minor Doire Ripaire Dòira Rivaira) is an alpine river, a left-hand tributary of the Po.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Eel

An eel is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 20 families, 111 genera and about 800 species.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.

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Emilia-Romagna

Emilia-Romagna (Emilian and Emélia-Rumâgna) is an administrative Region of Northeast Italy comprising the historical regions of Emilia and Romagna.

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Enza

The Enza is a river in northern Italy, a right affluence of the Po River.

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Eridanos (river of Hades)

The river Eridanos or Eridanus (Ἠριδανός, "Amber") is a river in northern Europe mentioned in Greek mythology and historiography.

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Eridanus (constellation)

Eridanus is a constellation in the southern hemisphere.

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Etruscan civilization

The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful and wealthy civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria and northern Lazio.

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Eurasian Plate

The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.

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European Environment Agency

The European Environment Agency (EEA) is the agency of the European Union (EU) that provides independent information on the environment, thereby helping those involved in developing, adopting, implementing and evaluating environmental policy, as well as informing the general public.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Eutrophication

Eutrophication (from Greek eutrophos, "well-nourished"), or hypertrophication, is when a body of water becomes overly enriched with minerals and nutrients that induce excessive growth of plants and algae.

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Excretion

Excretion is the process by which metabolic waste is eliminated from an organism.

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Ferrara

Ferrara (Ferrarese: Fràra) is a town and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara.

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Ficarolo

Ficarolo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about southwest of Venice and about southwest of Rovigo.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Friûl-Vignesie Julie; Furlanija-Julijska krajina, Friaul-Julisch Venetien; Friul-Venesia Julia; Friul-Unieja Julia) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute.

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Goro, Emilia–Romagna

Goro (Ferrarese: Gòr, but locally Goro) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northeast of Bologna and about east of Ferrara, near the mouth of the Po River.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος, Hêródotos) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (484– 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Lambro

The Lambro (Lamber or Lambar) is a river of Lombardy, northern Italy, a left tributary of the Po.

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Last Glacial Maximum

In the Earth's climate history the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the last time period during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Levee

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Ligures

The Ligures (singular Ligus or Ligur; English: Ligurians, Greek: Λίγυες) were an ancient Indo-European people who appear to have originated in, and gave their name to, Liguria, a region of north-western Italy.

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Ligurian language (ancient)

The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures.

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List of rivers by length

This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth.

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Maira

The Maira is an Italian river, a right tributary of the Po, which runs through the province of Cuneo in eastern Piedmont.

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Malone (river)

Malone is a long stream (torrente) of the Metropolitan City of Turin in Piedmont, north-western Italy.

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Mantua

Mantua (Mantova; Emilian and Latin: Mantua) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.

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Marine transgression

A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, resulting in flooding.

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Mesola

Mesola (Ferrarese: La Mèsula) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northeast of Bologna and about east of Ferrara.

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Messinian

The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene.

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Messinian salinity crisis

The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), also referred to as the Messinian Event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event, was a geological event during which the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partly or nearly complete desiccation throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 Ma (million years ago).

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Mincio

Mincio (Latin: Mincius, Ancient Greek: Minchios, Μίγχιος) is a river in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems refers to any ecosystem found in mountains.

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Monte Viso

Monte Viso or Monviso (Vísol; Piedmontese: Brich Monviso or Viso), is the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps.

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Monteu da Po

Monteu da Po is a small comune in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy, 32 km north-east of Turin.

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Monticelli d'Ongina

Monticelli d'Ongina (Piacentino: Muntṡéi) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Piacenza in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about east of Piacenza.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a book about the whole of the natural world in Latin by Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and naval commander who died in 79 AD.

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Navigli

The navigli (Navili) were a system of navigable and interconnected canals around Milan, Italy.

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Nure

The Nure (Latin Nura) is a small river in northern Italy (province of Piacenza).

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Oglio

The Oglio (Latin Ollius, or Olius; Lombard Òi) is a left-side tributary of the Po River in Lombardy, Italy.

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Old Irish

Old Irish (Goídelc; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish; sometimes called Old Gaelic) is the name given to the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive written texts are extant.

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Orco

The Orco (Eva d'òr, that is lit. Water of gold; Orgus) is an Italian river.

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Orogeny

An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.

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Ostellato

Ostellato (Ferrarese: Ustlà) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northeast of Bologna and about southeast of Ferrara.

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Panaro (river)

The Panaro is an Italian river and the final right-hand tributary to the Po, discounting the Cavo Napoleonico canal.

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Pannonia

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

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Parma

Parma (Pärma) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its prosciutto (ham), cheese, architecture, music and surrounding countryside.

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Parma (river)

The Parma River is a large stream, long, that begins in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine mountains and flows in Parma valley.

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Pausanias (geographer)

Pausanias (Παυσανίας Pausanías; c. AD 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD, who lived in the time of Roman emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.

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Pellice

The Pellice (in Piedmontese Pélis) is a Italian torrent, which runs through the Metropolitan City of Turin.

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Phaethon

In Greek mythology, Phaethon (Φαέθων, Phaéthōn), was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios.

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Piacenza

Piacenza (Piacentino: Piaṡëinsa) is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.

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Piedmont

Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piedmontese, Occitan and Piemont; Piémont) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.

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Piz Lunghin

Piz Lunghin (2,780 m) is a mountain in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, located in the Albula range, overlooking the Maloja Pass.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Po Valley

The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain (Pianura Padana, or Val Padana) is a major geographical feature of Northern Italy.

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Polybius

Polybius (Πολύβιος, Polýbios; – BC) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period noted for his work which covered the period of 264–146 BC in detail.

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Porto Tolle

Porto Tolle is a town in the province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy.

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Porto Viro

Porto Viro, or Taglio di Porto is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about south of Venice and about east of Rovigo.

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Progradation

In sedimentary geology and geomorphology, the term progradation refers to the growth of a river delta farther out into the sea over time.

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Proto-Indo-European language

Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.

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Province of Piacenza

The province of Piacenza (provincia di Piacenza) is a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.

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Ravenna

Ravenna (also locally; Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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Regions of Italy

The regions of Italy (Italian: regioni) are the first-level administrative divisions of Italy, constituting its second NUTS administrative level.

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Reno (river)

The Reno is a river of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice (Repubblica di Venezia, later: Repubblica Veneta; Repùblica de Venèsia, later: Repùblica Vèneta), traditionally known as La Serenissima (Most Serene Republic of Venice) (Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia; Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta), was a sovereign state and maritime republic in northeastern Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and the 18th century.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Rimini

Rimini (Rémin; Ariminum) is a city of about 150,000 inhabitants in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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River source

The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Scrivia

The Scrivia, long, is a right tributary of the Po River, in northern Italy.

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Secchia

The Secchia (called by Pliny Gabellus) is an Italian river.

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Sesia

The Sesia (Latin Sesites or Sessites) is a river in Piedmont, north-western Italy, tributary to the Po.

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Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar (مضيق جبل طارق, Estrecho de Gibraltar) is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Peninsular Spain in Europe from Morocco and Ceuta (Spain) in Africa.

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Stura di Lanzo

Stura di Lanzo (Varus) is a long river in north-western Italy (Piedmont), in the Metropolitan City of Turin.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Taglio di Po

Taglio di Po is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about south of Venice and about east of Rovigo, in the lower Polesine.

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Tanaro

The Tanaro, known as Tanarus in ancient times and Tane or Tani in piedmontese language, is a long river in northwestern Italy.

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Taro (river)

The Taro (Latin Tarus) is a river in Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.

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Tethys Ocean

The Tethys Ocean (Ancient Greek: Τηθύς), Tethys Sea or Neotethys was an ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era located between the ancient continents of Gondwana and Laurasia, before the opening of the Indian and Atlantic oceans during the Cretaceous Period.

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Ticino (river)

The river Ticino (Tisín; French and Tessin; Ticīnus) is the most important perennial left-bank tributary of the Po.

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Toponymy

Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

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Trebbia

The Trebbia (stressed Trèbbia; Trebia) is a river predominantly of Liguria and Emilia Romagna in northern Italy.

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Trento

Trento (anglicized as Trent; local dialects: Trènt; Trient) is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

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Umbri

The Umbri were Italic peoples of ancient Italy.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Urine

Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many animals.

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Valle Po

The source of the Po River near Crissolo The Valle Po (Po valley) is a valley of the Cottian Alps in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, northern Italy.

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Varaita

The Varaita (Piedmontese: Vràita; Varacho) is a river of the Province of Cuneo in northwest Italy.

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Veneto

Veneto (or,; Vèneto) is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Versa (Po)

The Versa is a tributary of the Po River which runs through the Province of Pavia in northern Italy.

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Via Aemilia

The Via Aemilia (Via Emilia) was a trunk Roman road in the north Italian plain, running from Ariminum (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia (Piacenza) on the river Padus (Po).

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Villasanta

Villasanta is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan.

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Volano

Volano (Nussdorf) is a comune (municipality) in Trentino in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about south of Trento.

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Water Framework Directive 2000

The Water Framework Directive is an EU directive which commits European Union member states to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies (including marine waters up to one nautical mile from shore) by 2015.

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Witenwasserenstock

The Witenwasserenstock (3,082 m) is a peak between the Swiss cantons of Valais and Uri, located in the Lepontine Alps.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Year

A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.

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45th parallel north

The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of Earth's equator.

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Redirects here:

Delta del Po, Padus River, Po River, Po river, River Po, The Po River.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po_(river)

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