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Oltrepò Calcio
Oltrepò (on the other side of the river Po) may refer to one of three geographical regions in Northern Italy, to a wine, and to a football team: * The Oltrepò Ferrarese a small area to the north of the Po which belonged to Ferrara until the Napoleonic invasion, after which it was incorporated into the Veneto. * The Oltrepò Mantovano, again to the south of the river, is an area which for centuries formed part of the Duchy of Mantua and today forms part of the Province of Mantua. * The Oltrepò Pavese The Oltrepò Pavese (; ; ) is a historical region making up the southern portion of the province of Pavia, in the northwest Italian region of Lombardy. The area is named after its location south of the Po (river), River Po as considered from th ..., an area to the south of the Po centred on the city of Voghera which became part of the Province of Pavia in 1859. ** Oltrepò Calcio, the former name of the football team S.G. Stradellina, which is based in the town of Stradella in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrara
Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po (river), Po River, located north. The town has broad streets and numerous palaces dating from the Renaissance, when it hosted the court of the House of Este. For its beauty and cultural importance, it has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. History Antiquity and Middle Ages The first documented settlements in the area of the present-day Province of Ferrara date from the 6th century BC. The ruins of the Etruscan civilization, Etruscan town of Spina, established along the lagoons at the ancient mouth of Po river, were lost until modern times, when drainage schemes in the Valli di Comacchio marshes in 1922 first officially revealed a necropolis with over 4,000 tombs, evidence of a population centre that in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led Military career of Napoleon, a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815. He led the French First Republic, French Republic as French Consulate, First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then ruled the First French Empire, French Empire as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814, and briefly again in 1815. He was King of Italy, King of Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic), Italy from 1805 to 1814 and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine from 1806 to 1813. Born on the island of Corsica to a family of Italian origin, Napoleon moved to mainland France in 1779 and was commissioned as an officer in the French Royal Army in 1785. He supported the French Rev ... [...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] |
Oltrepò Mantovano
Oltrepò (on the other side of the river Po) may refer to one of three geographical regions in Northern Italy, to a wine, and to a football team: * The Oltrepò Ferrarese a small area to the north of the Po which belonged to Ferrara until the Napoleonic invasion, after which it was incorporated into the Veneto. * The Oltrepò Mantovano, again to the south of the river, is an area which for centuries formed part of the Duchy of Mantua and today forms part of the Province of Mantua. * The Oltrepò Pavese The Oltrepò Pavese (; ; ) is a historical region making up the southern portion of the province of Pavia, in the northwest Italian region of Lombardy. The area is named after its location south of the Po (river), River Po as considered from th ..., an area to the south of the Po centred on the city of Voghera which became part of the Province of Pavia in 1859. ** Oltrepò Calcio, the former name of the football team S.G. Stradellina, which is based in the town of Stradella in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duchy Of Mantua
The Duchy of Mantua (; ) was a duchy in Lombardy, northern Italy. Its first duke was Federico II Gonzaga, member of the House of Gonzaga that ruled Mantua since 1328. In 1531, the duchy also acquired the March of Montferrat, thanks to the marriage between Gonzaga and Margaret Paleologa, Marchioness of Montferrat. The duchy's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole. Mantua also had one of the most splendid courts of Italy and Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. In 1708, after the death of Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, the last heir of the Gonzaga family, the duchy was partitioned. The domains were divided between the House of Savoy, that obtained the remaining half of Montferrat, and the House of Habsburg, that obtained the city of Mantua itself. History Background After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Mantua
The province of Mantua (; Emilian language#Dialects, Mantuan, Emilian language#Dialects, Lower Mantuan: ; Emilian language#Dialects, Upper Mantuan: ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Mantua. It is bordered to the north-east by the province of Verona, to the east by the province of Rovigo, to the south by the province of Ferrara, province of Modena, province of Reggio Emilia, and province of Parma, to the west by the province of Cremona, and to the north-west by the province of Brescia. History Founded in the tenth century BCE on the plain formed by meanders of the River Mincio, Mantua became an Etruscan civilization, Etruscan town and important trading post for pottery and agricultural products. Despite its defensible position, it was unable to withstand the Celts, Celtic invaders in the sixth and fifth centuries BC who overwhelmed it, and the whole area was later conquered by the Ancient Rome, Romans. By the fifth cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oltrepò Pavese
The Oltrepò Pavese (; ; ) is a historical region making up the southern portion of the province of Pavia, in the northwest Italian region of Lombardy. The area is named after its location south of the Po (river), River Po as considered from the provincial capital Pavia and in general from the rest of Lombardy. Geography Extending over an area of , it is roughly triangular in shape, with a base to the north formed by the Po and a southern apex at Monte Lesima (), a mountain of the Ligurian Apennines which is the highest point in the province. To the west it is bounded by the province of Alessandria and to the east by the province of Piacenza. The territory comprises a plain close to the Po, a hilly section, which rises from the Valle Staffora to the west and from the upper Pianello Val Tidone, Val Tidone to the east, and a mountainous zone which in addition to Monte Lesima includes the peaks of Monte Chiappo (1700 m) Cima Colletta (1494 m) and Monte Penice (1460 m). The main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oltrepò Calcio
Oltrepò (on the other side of the river Po) may refer to one of three geographical regions in Northern Italy, to a wine, and to a football team: * The Oltrepò Ferrarese a small area to the north of the Po which belonged to Ferrara until the Napoleonic invasion, after which it was incorporated into the Veneto. * The Oltrepò Mantovano, again to the south of the river, is an area which for centuries formed part of the Duchy of Mantua and today forms part of the Province of Mantua. * The Oltrepò Pavese The Oltrepò Pavese (; ; ) is a historical region making up the southern portion of the province of Pavia, in the northwest Italian region of Lombardy. The area is named after its location south of the Po (river), River Po as considered from th ..., an area to the south of the Po centred on the city of Voghera which became part of the Province of Pavia in 1859. ** Oltrepò Calcio, the former name of the football team S.G. Stradellina, which is based in the town of Stradella in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
