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Piemont Zone
Piemont may refer to: * Piemont or Piedmont, a region of Italy * Piemont-Liguria Ocean, a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean * Nicolaas Piemont(1644–1709), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter See also * Piemonte (other) * Piedmont (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piedmont
Piedmont ( ; ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the northwest Italy, Northwest of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the northwest. Piedmont also borders Switzerland to the north and France to the west. Piedmont has an area of , making it the second-largest region of Italy after Sicily. It has 4,255,702 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital of Piedmont is Turin, which was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Toponymy The French ''Piedmont'', the Italian ''Piemonte'', and other variant cognates come from the medieval Latin or , i.e. , meaning "at the foot of the mountains" (referring to the Alps), attested in documents from the end of the 12th century. Geography Piedmont is surrounded on three sides by the Alps, including Monte Viso, Monviso, where the Po River, river Po rises, and Monte Rosa. It borders France (Auvergne-Rhône ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piemont-Liguria Ocean
The Piemont-Liguria basin or the Piemont-Liguria Ocean (sometimes only one of the two names is used, for example: Piemonte Ocean) was a former piece of oceanic crust that is seen as part of the Tethys Ocean. Together with some other oceanic basins that existed between the continents Europe and Africa, the Piemont-Liguria Ocean is called the Western or Alpine Tethys Ocean. Plate tectonic history The Piemont-Liguria Ocean was formed in the Jurassic period, when the paleocontinents Laurasia (to the north, with Europe) and Gondwana (to the south, with Africa) started to move away from each other. The oceanic crust that formed in between the two continents became the Piemont-Liguria Ocean. In the Cretaceous period the Piemont-Liguria Ocean lay between Europe (and a smaller plate called the Iberian plate) in the northwest and the Apulian plate (a sub-plate of the African tectonic plate) in the southeast. When the Apulian plate started moving to the northwest in the late Cretaceous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Piemont
Nicolaes Piemont (1644–1709) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who travelled to Rome in the 1670s. Biography Nicolaas Piemont was born in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken, Piemont was a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Opgang" who signed Abraham Genoels's ''bentbrief'' in Rome in 1674.Nicolaes Piemont Biography in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by , courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature According to the RKD he was nicknamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piemonte (other)
Piemonte is the Italian name for Piedmont, a region of northern Italy. Piemonte may also refer to: *Piemonte (wine) *Piemonte F.C. * 5162 Piemonte, a main-belt asteroid * 29th Infantry Division "Piemonte", an infantry division of Italy of the Second World War People with the surname * Gabriel Piemonte (1909-1991), American attorney and politician *Martina Piemonte, Italian footballer * Patrick Piemonte, American inventor and computer scientist See also * Piemonte-Sardinia, the Kingdom of Sardinia * Piemontesi, a surname * Piemont (other) * Piedmont (other) Piedmont is a region in Northwest Italy. In physical geography, piedmont denotes a region of foothills in a mountain range. Piedmont may also refer to: Regions in the United States *Piedmont (United States), a plateau between the Atlantic Plain ... * Piamonte (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
