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Monte Priaforà
Monte Priaforà is a mountain of the Veneto, Italy. It has an elevation of 1,659 metres. It is part of the Little Dolomites with Cima Palon (the highest peak). Like the surrounding peaks, Mount Priaforà is made up of rocks from the Triassic and Jurassic periods.Liverio Carollo, Hiking Guide of the Valleys of Posina, Lakes and the Plateau of Tonezza, II ed, 1996 Serenissima editrice, C.A.I. sezione Thiene, pp. 23-25. References Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Veneto {{Veneto-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona. 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 Republic was combined with Lombardy and 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. Besides Italian language, Italian, most inhabitants also speak Venetian language, Venetian. Since 1971, the Statute of Veneto has referred to the region's citizens as "the Venetian people". Article 1 defines Veneto as an " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
