Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy.
- VenetoIn 1866, Victor Emmanuel II allied with Prussia during the Austro-Prussian War, waging the Third Italian War of Independence which allowed Italy to annexe Venetia.
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Adriatic Veneti
2 linksThe Veneti (also Heneti) were an Indo-European people who inhabited northeastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of Veneto.
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
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Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (, ; Trentino-Alto Adige ; Trentino-Südtirol; ) is an autonomous region of Italy, located in the northern part of the country.
The region is bordered by East and North Tyrol (Austria) to the north-east and north respectively, by Graubünden (Switzerland) to the north-west, and by the Italian regions of Lombardy to the west and Veneto to the south and south-east.
Tuscany
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Tuscany is the second most popular Italian region for travellers in Italy, after Veneto.
Regions of Italy
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The regions of Italy (regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level.
The results varied considerably among the regions, ranging from 55.3% in favor in Veneto to 82% against in Calabria.
Cisalpine Gaul
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Cisalpine Gaul (Gallia Cisalpina, also called Gallia Citerior or Gallia Togata ) was the part of Italy inhabited by Celts (Gauls) during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.
The Veneti were an Indo-European people who inhabited north-eastern Italy, in an area corresponding to the modern-day region of the Veneto, Friuli, and Trentino.
Kingdom of Sardinia
2 linksState in Southern Europe from the early 14th until the mid-19th century.
State in Southern Europe from the early 14th until the mid-19th century.
There followed the annexation of Lombardy (1859), the central Italian states and the Two Sicilies (1860), Venetia (1866), and the Papal States (1870).
The Savoy-led Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia was thus the legal predecessor of the Kingdom of Italy, which in turn is the predecessor of the present-day Italian Republic.
Dolomites
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The Dolomites (Dolomiti ; Ladin: Dolomites; Dolomiten ; Dołomiti : Dolomitis), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy.
The Dolomites are located in the regions of Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Friuli Venezia Giulia, covering an area shared between the provinces of Belluno, Vicenza, Verona, Trentino, South Tyrol, Udine and Pordenone.
Adige
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The Adige (Etsch ; Àdexe ; ; ; Athesis;, or Ἄταγις, Átagis ) is the 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.
Italian nationalism
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Italian nationalism is a movement which believes that the Italians are a nation with a single homogeneous identity, and therefrom seeks to promote the cultural unity of Italy as a country.
Regionalism and municipal identities have challenged the concept of a unified Italian identity, like those in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Naples, Sardinia, Sicily and Veneto.
Eraclea
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Eraclea is a small city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, northern Italy.