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Lusiana
Lusiana (Cimbrian / German language, German: Lusaan) is a small town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, in the comune of Lusiana Conco. The town is situated at about above sea level on the Sette Comuni, Asiago plateau . The small town is the birthplace of Sonia Gandhi, Sonia Maino Gandhi, wife of Rajiv Gandhi, the former prime minister of India. She was born in a neighborhood called “Màini” where families with the family name “Màino” had been living for many generations. References External links * Cities and towns in Veneto {{Veneto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lusiana Conco
Lusiana Conco is a comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto region of Italy. It was formed on 20 February 2019 with the merger of the comunes of Lusiana and Conco. Lusiana Conco is located in the Sette Comuni territory. Sources {{authority control Cities and towns in Veneto States and territories established in 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Gandhi
Sonia Gandhi (, ; ; born 9 December 1946) is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, a big-tent liberal political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former List of prime ministers of India, Prime Minister of India, and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. She returned to the post as interim president in 2019 and remained the President for another three years. Born in a small village near Vicenza, Italy, Gandhi was raised in a Roman Catholic family. After completing her primary education at local schools, she moved for language classes to Cambridge, England, where she met Rajiv Gandhi, and later married him in 1968. She then moved to India and started living with her mother-in-law, the then-Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, at the latter's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conco
Conco () is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, in the comune of Lusiana Conco. As of 2007, Conco had an estimated population of 2,272. Altitudine is 799 m asl in piazza. Sources(Google Maps) Cities and towns in Veneto {{Veneto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sette Comuni
The (, ) are seven that formed a Cimbrian enclave in the Veneto region of north-east Italy. The area is also known as the or Asiago Plateau, and it was the site of a major battle between Austrian and Italian forces on the Alpine Front of World War I. The most important is that of Asiago, for which Asiago cheese is named. Cimbrian, a variety of Upper German, was the native language, and the area was ethnically and culturally distinct from the surrounding comuni. The Sette Comuni are located in mountainous territory, ranging from 500 to 2300 metres above sea level. Comuni File:Asiago vi.jpg, Altopiano of the Sette Comuni File:7 Comuni.jpg, Coats of arms of the on the municipal hall of . History The seven comuni formed into a loose commonwealth in 1310. They were historically under the suzerainty of the Milanese House of Visconti and then under the Republic of Venice. Under both they enjoyed wide cultural and political autonomy in exchange for their loyal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Vicenza
The province of Vicenza (; ) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital city is Vicenza. The province has an area of 2,722.53 km2, and a total population of 865,082 (as of 2017). There are 113 ''comuni'' (municipalities) in the province. Towns in the province include Bassano del Grappa, Schio, Arzignano, Montecchio Maggiore, Thiene, Torri di Quartesolo, Noventa Vicentina, Marostica, Lonigo and Valdagno. Population is unevenly spread throughout the province. More than 60% of the populace resides in densely industrialised areas in the eastern, western, and northern (known as Alto Vicentino) conurbations, as well as the area surrounding Bassano del Grappa. The remaining 40% reside in predominantly rural areas in the southern part of the province (the Colli Berici and Basso Vicentino) or the Asiago plateau. Economic development in some areas is hindered by industrial and agricultural depression. Towns in the western section such as Valdagno and Montecchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laverda (VI)
Laverda (''Moto Laverda S.A.S. – Dottore Francesco Laverda e fratelli'') was an Italian manufacturer of high performance motorcycles. The motorcycles in their day gained a reputation for being robust and innovative. The Laverda brand was absorbed by Piaggio when, in 2004, Piaggio absorbed Aprilia. Piaggio has elected to quietly close all activities related to the Laverda brand and has publicly stated that they would be willing to sell the rights to the brand if an investor should appear. As of 2015, Laverda.com no longer redirects to Aprilia's website. As of 2021, laverda.com shows the history of the company between 1873 and 2004. History Early history The roots of the Laverda Motorcycle company go back to 1873, when Pietro Laverda (1845–1930) decided to start an agricultural engines enterprise – Laverda S.p.A. – in the small rural village of Breganze in Vicenza province (North-East of Italy). Almost exactly three quarters of a century later, with a spirit of ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western Europe, Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and Official language, official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Luxembourg, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Belgium and the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, as well as a recognized national language in Namibia. There are also notable German-speaking communities in other parts of Europe, including: Poland (Upper Silesia), the Czech Republic (North Bohemia), Denmark (South Jutland County, North Schleswig), Slovakia (Krahule), Germans of Romania, Romania, Hungary (Sopron), and France (European Collectivity of Alsace, Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the global language system, major languages of the world, with nearly 80 million native speakers and over 130 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veneto
Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is the region's capital while Verona is the largest city. Veneto was part of the Roman Empire until the 5th century AD. Later, after a Feudalism, feudal period, it was part of the Republic of Venice until 1797. Venice ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Venetian Province, former Republic was combined with Lombardy and re-annexed to the Austrian Empire as the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, until that was Italian unification, merged with the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence and of a Plebiscite of Veneto of 1866, plebiscite. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salcedo (Italia)
Salcedo or Salzedo may refer to: Places ;Dominican Republic * Hermanas Mirabal Province (formerly called Salcedo) * Salcedo, Dominican Republic, the capital of the Hermanas Mirabal Province ;Ecuador * Salcedo Canton, Cotopaxi Province *: Salcedo, Ecuador, Capital of the Salcedo Canton ;Italy * Salcedo, Italy, a commune in the province of Vicenza (Veneto) ;Philippines * Salcedo, Ilocos Sur, a municipality * Salcedo, Eastern Samar, a municipality ;Spain * Salcedo, Álava, a village in Lantarón municipality ;United States * Salcedo, Missouri, an unincorporated community People * Carlos Salzedo (1885–1961), French harpist, composer and conductor * Domingo Salcedo (born 1983), Paraguayan footballer * Doris Salcedo (born 1958), Colombian artist * Felipe de Salcedo (c. 1564), Spanish conquistador * José Antonio Salcedo, General of the Dominican Republic * José Ulises Macías Salcedo (born 1940), Mexican archbishop *Juan de Salcedo (1549–1576), Spanish commander in the Philippine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cimbrian
Cimbrian (, ; ; ) is any of several local Upper German varieties spoken in parts of the Italian regions of Trentino and Veneto. The speakers of the language are known as in German. Cimbrian is a Germanic language related to Bavarian most probably deriving from a Southern Bavarian dialect. It is also related to the Mòcheno language. Its many essential differences in grammar as well as in vocabulary and pronunciation make it practically unintelligible for people speaking Standard German, being problematic even for many people speaking Bavarian. The use of Italian throughout the country and the influence of nearby Venetian have both had large effects on the number of speakers of Cimbrian throughout past centuries. This effect has been large enough to cause Cimbrian to be deemed an endangered language. History The earliest record of the movement of Bavarians to Verona dates to ca. 1050 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cod. lat. 4547). The settlement continued during the 11th and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Caterina (Lusiana)
Santa Caterina may refer to: Places *Santa Catarina (state), Brazil * Santa Caterina Albanese, in the Province of Cosenza, Italy * Santa Caterina dello Ionio, in the Province of Catanzaro, Italy * Santa Caterina Villarmosa, in the Province of Caltanissetta, Italy * Santa Caterina di Valfurva, ski resort and ''frazione'' of the commune Valfurva in the Province of Sondrio, Italy * Santa Caterina, Roccalbegna, in the Province of Grosseto, Italy Buildings * Santa Caterina a Chiaia, a church in Naples * Santa Caterina a Formiello, a church in Naples * Santa Caterina (Livorno), a church in Livorno * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, a church in Palermo * Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, a church in Pisa, in the Province of Tuscany, Italy * Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli, a church in Rome * Santa Caterina a Via Giulia, a church in the Via Giulia in Rome * Santa Caterina dei Funari, a church in Rome * Santa Caterina del Sasso, a monastery on the shore of Lake Maggiore * Santa Caterina, Urba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marostica
Marostica (; ), is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is mostly famous for its live chess event and for the local cherry variety. History Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the locality was greatly influenced by several members of the important medieval family from the Veneto, known as the Ezzelini. They were finally defeated in 1260. Marostica was a Venetian city until Venice joined Italy. During the 19th century it was mainly a relatively poor town; a great number of inhabitants went to look for fortune in Brazil and many other places in the world. The wealth of the town grew greatly after the second world war. Marostica is famous for the human chess game it carries out every 2 years (in the even-numbered years) with living chess pieces in the city public square. Festival Facts According to legend the original chess match took place on September 12, 1454, so during the 2nd weekend in September of even-numbered years, this reenac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
