The term Lombard refers to people or things related to
Lombardy
The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, 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. Lombardy is ...
, a region in northern Italy.
History and culture
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Lombards
The Lombards () or Longobards () were a Germanic peoples, Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written betwee ...
, a Germanic tribe
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Lombardic language
Lombardic or Langobardic () is an extinct West Germanic language that was spoken by the Lombards (), the Germanic people who settled in present-day Italy in the sixth century and established the Kingdom of the Lombards. It was already declining ...
, the Germanic language spoken by the Lombards
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Lombards of Sicily, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy
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Lombard League
The Lombard League (; ) was an alliance of cities formed in 1167, and supported by the popes, to counter the attempts by the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperors to establish direct royal administrative control over the cities of the Kingdom of It ...
, a medieval alliance of some 30 cities in Northern Italy
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Lombard language
The Lombard language (,Classical Milanese orthography, and . ,Ticino, Ticinese orthography. Modern Western orthography and Classical Cremish Orthography. or ,Eastern Lombard, Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronuncia ...
, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland
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Old Lombard, the form of the Lombard language from the 13th and 14th centuries
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Lombardic capitals, a decorative lettering style originally used in medieval manuscripts
Businesses
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ICICI Lombard, an insurance company in India
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Le Lombard
Le Lombard (), known as Les Éditions du Lombard () until 1989, is a Belgian comic book publisher established in 1946 when '' Tintin'' magazine was launched. Le Lombard became part of Média-Participations since 1986, alongside publishers Darg ...
(or Editions Lombard), a Belgian comic book publisher
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Lombard Bank, a bank in Malta
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Lombard North Central, a finance house in the United Kingdom
Places
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Lombard, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs ''département''
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Lombard, Jura, a commune of the Jura ''département''
;United States
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Lombard, Illinois
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Lombard, Montana
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Lombard, Wisconsin
Other uses
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Lombard (surname)
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Lombard (gun), an early cannon
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Lombard Street (disambiguation) Lombard Street may refer to:
Roads
* Lombard Street, London, England
* Rue des Lombards, Paris, France
* Lombard Street, Petworth, shopping street in Petworth United States
* Lombard Street (San Francisco), California, steep with hairpin turns
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Automobiles Lombard, a French automobile manufacturer in the 1920s
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Lombard Steam Log Hauler
* Lombard, codename of the third generation
PowerBook G3 laptop computers made by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2001
* the title character of ''
Anna Lombard'', a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory
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Lombard (band), a Polish rock band
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"Lombard" (''Miami Vice''), an episode from the ''Miami Vice'' television series
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Lombard College, a now defunct institution of higher education in Galesburg, Illinois
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Lombard (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger
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Enfariné noir, French wine grape also known as Lombard
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''Lombard'' (magazine), an Italian business magazine
See also
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Lombard banking
Lombard banking refers to the business of Italian moneylenders generally referred to as "Lombards" (in medieval times Northern Italy was referred as Lombardy, a much larger region than the modern Lombardy). The term was often used in a derogatory ...
, a form of medieval banking
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Lombard credit, a form of lending used by central banks
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Lombard effect, a phenomenon in which a speaker or singer involuntarily raises his or her vocal intensity in the presence of high levels of sound
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Lombard rhythm, a musical rhythm, especially used in Baroque music
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Lombardo, a family name
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Lombardi (disambiguation)
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