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187 relations: Adda (river), Adige, Adriatic Sea, Adriatic Veneti, Alder, Allies of World War II, Alluvial fan, Alps, Americas, Anticline, Apennine Mountains, Arianism, Austria, Autonomous administrative division, Battle of Legnano, Battle of Marengo, Battle of Pavia, Bergamo, Black Death, Bologna, Brenta (river), Brescia, Byzantine Empire, Carolingian Empire, Carpinus betulus, Caste, Catholic Church, Celts, Charlemagne, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Como, Comune, Counter-Reformation, Cretaceous, Death by burning, Dolomite (rock), Dora Baltea, Dora Riparia, Drought, Duchy, Early Middle Ages, Elm, Emilia (region), Etruscan civilization, European Space Agency, Ferrara, Foehn wind, Fog, Foreland basin, France, ... Expand index (137 more) »
- Landforms of Emilia-Romagna
- Landforms of Lombardy
- Landforms of Piedmont
- Landforms of Veneto
- Plains of Italy
- Po basin
Adda (river)
The Adda (Latin: Abdua, or Addua; 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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Adige
The Adige (Etsch; Àdexe; Adisch; Adesc; Athesis; Áthesis, or label) is the second-longest river in Italy, after the Po.
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 (sometimes also referred to as Venetici, Ancient Veneti or Paleoveneti to distinguish them from the modern-day inhabitants of the Veneto region, called Veneti in Italian) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto, from the middle of the 2nd millennium BC and developing their own original civilization along the 1st millennium BC.
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Alder
Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.
Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment.
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Anticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of an anticline.
Apennine Mountains
The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun.
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Arianism
Arianism (Ἀρειανισμός) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity.
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Autonomous administrative division
An autonomous administrative division (also referred to as an autonomous area, zone, entity, unit, region, subdivision, province, or territory) is a subnational administrative division or internal territory of a sovereign state that has a degree of autonomy—self-governance—under the national government.
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Battle of Legnano
The battle of Legnano was a battle between the imperial army of Frederick Barbarossa and the troops of the Lombard League on May 29, 1176, near the town of Legnano, in present-day Lombardy, Italy.
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Battle of Marengo
The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between French forces under the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Austrian forces near the city of Alessandria, in Piedmont, Italy.
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Battle of Pavia
The Battle of Pavia, fought on the morning of 24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526 between the Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as well as ruler of Spain, Austria, the Low Countries, and the Two Sicilies.
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Bergamo
Bergamo (Bèrghem) is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of Northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como and Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Garda and Maggiore.
Black Death
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
Bologna
Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.
Brenta (river)
The Brenta is an Italian river that runs from Trentino to the Adriatic Sea just south of the Venetian lagoon in the Veneto region, in the north-east of Italy.
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Brescia
Brescia (locally; Brèsa,; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Carolingian Empire
The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages.
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Carpinus betulus
Carpinus betulus, the European or common hornbeam, is a species of tree in the birch family Betulaceae, native to Western Asia and central, eastern, and southern Europe, including southern England.
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Caste
A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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Como
Como (Comasco, Cómm or Cùmm; Novum Comum) is a city and comune (municipality) in Lombardy, Italy.
Comune
A comune (comuni) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
Counter-Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
Death by burning
Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat.
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Dolomite (rock)
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.
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Dora Baltea
Dora Baltea or Doire Baltée is a river in northwestern Italy.
Dora Riparia
The Dora Riparia (Dòira Rivaira; Doire Ripaire or Doire; Duria minor) is an alpine river, a left-bank tributary of the Po.
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Drought
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.
Duchy
A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.
Early Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th to the 10th century.
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Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae.
Emilia (region)
Emilia (Emeja / Emégglia / Emélia) is a historical region of northern Italy, which approximately corresponds to the western and the north-eastern portions of the modern region of Emilia-Romagna, with the area of Romagna forming the remainder of the modern region.
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Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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Ferrara
Ferrara (Fràra) is a city and comune (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara.
Foehn wind
A Foehn, or Föhn, is a type of dry, relatively warm downslope wind that occurs in the lee (downwind side) of a mountain range.
Fog
Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
Foreland basin
A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francis I of France
Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.
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Franks
Aristocratic Frankish burial items from the Merovingian dynasty The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum;; Francs.) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Middle Ages.
Fraxinus
Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.
Frederick Barbarossa
Frederick Barbarossa (December 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick I (Friedrich I; Federico I), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later in 1190.
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Friuli
Friuli (Friûl; Friul or Friułi; Furlanija; Friaul) is a historical region of northeast Italy.
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Friuli-Venezia Giulia is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute.
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Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
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Gothic War (535–554)
The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 to 554 in the Italian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily, and Corsica.
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Guelphs and Ghibellines
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (guelfi e ghibellini) were factions supporting respectively the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages.
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Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation.
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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House of Savoy
The House of Savoy (Casa Savoia) is an Italian royal house (formally a dynasty) that was established in 1003 in the historical Savoy region.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.
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Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Insubres
The Insubres or Insubri were an ancient Celtic population settled in Insubria, in what is now the Italian region of Lombardy.
Insubria
Insubria is a historical-geographical region which corresponds to the area inhabited in Classical antiquity by the Insubres; the name can also refer to the Duchy of Milan (1395–1810).
Intermittent river
Intermittent, temporary or seasonal rivers or streams cease to flow every year or at least twice every five years.
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Inversion (meteorology)
In meteorology, an inversion (or temperature inversion) is a phenomenon in which a layer of warmer air overlies cooler air.
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Isostasy
Isostasy (Greek ''ísos'' 'equal', ''stásis'' 'standstill') or isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density.
Italian economic miracle
The Italian economic miracle or Italian economic boom (il miracolo economico italiano. or il boom economico italiano) is the term used by historians, economists, and the mass media to designate the prolonged period of strong economic growth in Italy after World War II to the late 1960s, and in particular the years from 1958 to 1963.
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Italian resistance movement
The Italian Resistance (Resistenza italiana,, or simply La Resistenza) consisted of all the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Social Republic during the Second World War in Italy from 1943 to 1945.
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Italian Wars
The Italian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between 1494 and 1559, mostly in the Italian Peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and Mediterranean Sea.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)
The Kingdom of Italy (Regnum Italiae or Regnum Italicum; Regno d'Italia; Königreich Italien), also called Imperial Italy (Italia Imperiale, Reichsitalien), was one of the constituent kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire, along with the kingdoms of Germany, Bohemia, and Burgundy.
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Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia; Royaume d'Italie) was a kingdom in Northern Italy (formerly the Italian Republic) that was a client state of Napoleon's French Empire.
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Kingdom of the Lombards
The Kingdom of the Lombards (Regnum Langobardorum; Regno dei Longobardi; Regn di Lombard), also known as the Lombard Kingdom and later as the Kingdom of all Italy (Regnum totius Italiae), was an early medieval state established by the Lombards, a Germanic people, on the Italian Peninsula in the latter part of the 6th century.
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Lake Como
Lake Como (Lago di Como), also known as Lario, is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy. It has an area of, making it the third-largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore. At over deep, it is the fifth-deepest lake in Europe and the deepest outside Norway; the bottom of the lake is below sea level.
Lake Garda
Lake Garda (Lago di Garda,, or (Lago) Benaco,; Lach de Garda; Ƚago de Garda) is the largest lake in Italy.
Lake Iseo
Lake Iseo or Iseo lake (Lago d'Iseo; label), also known as Sebino (Sebinus), is the fourth largest lake in Lombardy, Italy, fed by the Oglio River.
Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore; Lagh Maggior; Lagh Magior; literally 'greater lake') or Verbano (Lacus Verbanus) is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps.
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Lambro
The Lambro (Lamber or Lambar) is a river of Lombardy, northern Italy, a left tributary of the Po.
Lamone (river)
The Lamone is a river in the Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna regions of Italy.
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Landform
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body.
Late Antique Little Ice Age
The Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) was a long-lasting Northern Hemispheric cooling period in the 6th and 7th centuries AD, during the period known as Late Antiquity.
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Lega Nord
Lega Nord (LN; Northern League), whose complete name is italic (Northern League for the Independence of Padania), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy.
Ligures
The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named.
Lombard League
The Lombard League (Liga Lombarda in Lombard, Lega Lombarda in Italian) was a medieval alliance formed in 1167, supported by the popes, to counter the attempts by the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperors to assert influence over the Kingdom of Italy as a part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
Lombardy
Lombardy (Lombardia; Lombardia) is an administrative region of Italy that covers; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population.
Maple
Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.
Marl
Marl is an earthy material rich in carbonate minerals, clays, and silt.
Medieval commune
Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms) among the citizens of a town or city.
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Medieval Warm Period
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP), also known as the Medieval Climate Optimum or the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, was a time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that lasted from to.
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Megalopolis
A megalopolis or a supercity, also called a megaregion, is a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on.
Messinian
The Messinian is in the geologic timescale the last age or uppermost stage of the Miocene.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
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Mincio
The Mincio (Mens; Menzo; Mincius; Mínchios) is a river in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
Mist
Mist is a phenomenon caused by small droplets of water suspended in the cold air, usually by condensation.
Modern era
The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.
Monza
Monza (Monça, locally Monscia; Modoetia) is a city and comune (municipality) on the River Lambro, a tributary of the River Po, in the Lombardy region of Italy, about north-northeast of Milan.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Natural-gas condensate
Natural-gas condensate, also called natural gas liquids, is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Nitrogen dioxide
Nitrogen dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula.
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Northern Italy
Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale, label, label) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy.
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NOx
In atmospheric chemistry, is shorthand for nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, the nitrogen oxides that are most relevant for air pollution.
Oglio
The Oglio (Ollius or Olius; Òi, Ùi) is a left-side tributary of the river Po in Lombardy, Italy.
Old Europe (archaeology)
Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in the Lower Danube Valley.
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Otto the Great
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (Otto der Große Ottone il Grande), or Otto of Saxony (Otto von Sachsen Ottone di Sassonia), was East Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973.
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Outcrop
An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
Ozone
Ozone (or trioxygen) is an inorganic molecule with the chemical formula.
Padania
Padania is an alternative name and proposed independent state encompassing Northern Italy, derived from the name of the Po River (Latin Padus), whose basin includes much of the region, centered on the Po Valley (Pianura Padana), the major plain of Northern Italy.
Padua
Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.
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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Parma
Parma (Pärma) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside.
Pavia
Pavia (Ticinum; Papia) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po.
Piave (river)
The Piave (Plavis, German: Ploden) is a river in northern Italy.
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Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piemont), located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Plague of Justinian
The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely affecting the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantinople.
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Po (river)
The Po is the longest river in Italy. Po Valley and Po (river) are po basin.
Po Basin mixed forests
The Po Basin mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in the basin of the Po River in northern Italy and Switzerland's Ticino canton.
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Polesine
Polesine (Połéxine; Pulésan) is a geographic and historic area in the north-east of Italy whose limits varied through centuries; it had also been known as Polesine of Rovigo for some time.
Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
Populus
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Province of Cuneo
The province of Cuneo (provincia di Cuneo; provincia ëd Coni) is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions.
Quercus robur
Quercus robur, the pedunculate oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.
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Rain
Rain is water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then fall under gravity.
Ravenna
Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Reno (river)
The Reno is a river of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.
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Republic of Venice
The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
Romagna
Romagna (Rumâgna) is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan
The Archdiocese of Milan (Arcidiocesi di Milano; Archidioecesis Mediolanensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Italy which covers the areas of Milan, Monza, Lecco and Varese.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Sambucus nigra
Sambucus nigra is a species complex of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae native to most of Europe.
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Sarca
The Sarca is a river springing from the Adamello-Presanella mountains in the Italian Alps and flowing into Lake Garda at Torbole.
Saronno
Saronno (Saronn) is a comune of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Varese.
Savio (river)
The Savio is a river in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
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Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.
Scrivia
The Scrivia, long, is a right tributary of the river Po, in northern Italy.
Secchia
The Secchia (Sècia; called by Pliny Gabellus) is an Italian river.
Secession
Secession is the formal withdrawal of a group from a political entity.
Secondary sector of the economy
In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing.
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Sentinel-5 Precursor
Sentinel-5 Precursor (Sentinel-5P) is an Earth observation satellite developed by ESA as part of the Copernicus Programme to close the gap in continuity of observations between Envisat and Sentinel-5.
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Sesia
The Sesia (Latin Sesites or Sessites) is a river in Piedmont, north-western Italy, tributary to the Po.
Southern Europe
Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Strategic bombing
Strategic bombing is a systematically organized and executed attack from the air which can utilize strategic bombers, long- or medium-range missiles, or nuclear-armed fighter-bomber aircraft to attack targets deemed vital to the enemy's war-making capability.
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Supercell
A supercell is a thunderstorm characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft.
Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).
See Po Valley and Surface runoff
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
Syncline
In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline.
Tagliamento
The Tagliamento (Tiliment; Tajamento) is a braided river in north-east Italy, flowing from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea at a point between Trieste and Venice.
Tanaro
The Tanaro (Tane;; Tanarus), is a long river in northwestern Italy.
Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
Textile
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.
The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.
Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
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Ticino
Ticino, sometimes Tessin, officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
Ticino (river)
The river Ticino (Tesin; French and Tessin; Ticīnus) is the most important perennial left-bank tributary of the Po.
See Po Valley and Ticino (river)
Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Trebbia
The Trebbia (stressed Trèbbia; Trebia) is a river predominantly of Liguria and Emilia Romagna in northern Italy.
Treviso
Treviso (Trevizo tɾeˈʋizo) is a city and comune (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy.
Triassic
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Tributary
A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.
Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.
Turin
Turin (Torino) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.
Unification of Italy
The unification of Italy (Unità d'Italia), also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
See Po Valley and Unification of Italy
Urban heat island
Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas.
See Po Valley and Urban heat island
Venetian Plain
The Venetian Plain, or Venetian-Friulian Plain (Pianura Veneta or Pianura Veneto-friulana) is a major geographical feature of Italy. Po Valley and Venetian Plain are landforms of Veneto and plains of Italy.
See Po Valley and Venetian Plain
Veneto
Veneto or the Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the north-east of the country.
Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Verona
Verona (Verona or Veròna) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.
Vicenza
Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy.
War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714.
See Po Valley and War of the Spanish Succession
Water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.
Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
Willow
Willows, also called sallows and osiers, of the genus Salix, comprise around 350 species (plus numerous hybrids) of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions.
Witch-hunt
A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft.
World war
A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.
See also
Landforms of Emilia-Romagna
- Idrovia Ferrarese
- Navile
- Po Valley
Landforms of Lombardy
- Cima Rest
- Maresana Hill
- Po Valley
- Splügen Pass
Landforms of Piedmont
- Colle Fauniera
- Pietra Alta
- Po Valley
Landforms of Veneto
- Brescia and Garda Prealps
- Cansiglio
- Garda Mountains
- Litoranea Veneta
- Montello (hill)
- Po Valley
- San Boldo Pass
- Venetian Plain
- Venetian Prealps
- Vicentine Alps
Plains of Italy
- Agro Nocerino Sarnese
- Campidano
- Nurra
- Piani di Pezza
- Plain of Catania
- Po Valley
- Rieti Valley
- Tavoliere delle Puglie
- Venetian Plain
- Vittoria Plain
Po basin
References
Also known as Padan Plain, Padovana Plains, Pianura Padana, Plain of the Po, Po Basin, Po Plain, Val Padana.