Adria is a town and comune in the province of Rovigo in the Veneto region of northern Italy, situated between the mouths of the rivers Adige and Po.
- AdriaEste, Padua, Oderzo, Adria, Vicenza, Verona, and Altino became centres of Venetic culture.
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Adriatic Sea
1 linksBody of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Illyrian Peninsula.
Body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Illyrian Peninsula.
The origins of the name Adriatic are linked to the Etruscan settlement of Adria, which probably derives its name from Illyrian adur 'water, sea'.
The Adriatic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea, bordered in the southwest by the Apennine or Italian Peninsula, in the northwest by the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and in the northeast by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania—the Balkan peninsula.
Adige
1 linksSecond-longest river in Italy, after the Po, rises in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol (Italian: Alto Adige "high Adige"), near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows 410 km through most of northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea.
Second-longest river in Italy, after the Po, rises in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol (Italian: Alto Adige "high Adige"), near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, and flows 410 km through most of northeastern Italy to the Adriatic Sea.
The Adige crosses Trentino and later Veneto, flowing past the town of Rovereto, the Lagarina Valley, the cities of Verona and Adria and the north-eastern part of the Po Plain into the Adriatic Sea.
Adriatic Veneti
0 linksThe Veneti (also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.
Many archaeological excavations are still under way in the Veneto today at sites such as Este, Padua, Oderzo, Adria, Vicenza, Verona and Altinum.
Province of Rovigo
0 linksThe Province of Rovigo (Provincia di Rovigo) is a province in the Veneto region of Italy.
The territory of the province was first colonized by the Greeks, who founded the colony of Adria in the 12th-11th centuries BC. During the 6th and 5th centuries BC Etruscans and Venetians inhabited the area, followed by the Romans.