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Venice (other)
Venice is a city in Italy. In historical contexts, the name may refer to the Republic of Venice. Venice or Venise may also refer to: Music * Music of Venice, the city's role in the development of the music of Italy * ''Venice'' (Fennesz album), 2004 * ''Venice'' (Anderson Paak album), 2014 * Venice (band), a band from Venice, California * ''Venice'' (musical), first produced in 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. Places United States * Venice, Bainbridge Island, Washington, a community of Bainbridge Island * Venice, Florida, a city in Sarasota County * Venice, Illinois, a city in Madison County * Venice, Los Angeles, a neighborhood on the Westside of the city, California * Venice, Louisiana, an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish * Venice, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Venice, Nebraska, a census-designated place in Douglas County * Venice, New York, a town in Cayuga County * Venice, Ohio, former name of Ross, a census-design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice, Alberta
Venice is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada within Lac La Biche County. It is located approximately west of Highway 55 and northwest of Cold Lake. Demographics Lac La Biche County's 2016 municipal census counted a population of 22 in Venice. See also *List of communities in Alberta *List of hamlets in Alberta Hamlets in the province of Alberta, Canada, are unincorporated communities administered by, and within the boundaries of, specialized municipalities or rural municipalities ( municipal districts, improvement districts and special areas). The ... References Hamlets in Alberta Lac La Biche County {{NorthernAlberta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Kamel Gouda
Venice Kamel Gouda is an Egyptian research professor and a former Minister of State for Scientific Research (1993–97). Early life Daughter to accountant Kamel Gouda and his wife Victoria Attalah, Venice was born on 7 October 1934 and received her B.Sc. degree from Ain Shams University in 1956. She did her M.Sc. (1959) and PhD (1962) from Cairo University. Career Gouda began her career as an assistant research chemist at the National Research Centre (NRC) in 1956 and from 1962 to 1966, was an associate professor at the Clarkson College of Technology. In 1991, she became the director of NRC's applied inorganic chemistry division. In October 1993 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in t ... appointed her the Minister of State for Scientific Rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nan Madol
Nan Madol is an archaeological site adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei, now part of the Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. Nan Madol was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty until about 1628.Nan Madol, Madolenihmw, Pohnpei William Ayres, Department of Anthropology University Of Oregon, Accessed 26 September 2007 The city, constructed in a lagoon, consists of a series of small s linked by a network of canals. The site core with its stone walls encloses an area approximately 1.5 km long by 0.5 km wide and it contains 92 artificial islets—stone and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Of The Orient ...
The following is an incomplete list of places which have been nicknamed Venice of the East. List See also * Venezuela, country whose name means "Little Venice" * Venice of the North * Little Venice * Paris of the East * Paris of the West * Little Paris References {{reflist, colwidth=30em 20^ Tourist Places in Kerala, India Lists of cities in Asia Venice of the East The following is an incomplete list of places which have been nicknamed Venice of the East. List See also * Venezuela, country whose name means "Little Venice" * Venice of the North * Little Venice * Paris of the East * Paris of the West * Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Of The North
The following is an incomplete list of settlements nicknamed Venice of the North. The term ''Venice of the North'' refers to various cities in Northern Europe that contain canals, comparing them to Venice, Italy, which is renowned for its canals (see Grand Canal). Some of these nicknames (e.g. in the case of Amsterdam) date back centuries, while others like Birmingham are very recently given and invented by the cities' own. List See also * List of places called Venice of the East * Little Paris * Little Venice * Little Berlin * Monasterevin * Paris of the East * Paris of the West * Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ..., country whose name means "Little Venice" References {{Reflist Lists of cities by nickname Venice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The following is an incomplete list of places which have been nicknamed Venice of the East. List See also * Venezuela, country whose name means "Little Venice" * Venice of the North * Little Venice * Paris of the East * Paris of the West * Little Paris References {{reflist, colwidth=30em 20^ Tourist Places in Kerala, India Lists of cities in Asia Venice of the East The following is an incomplete list of places which have been nicknamed Venice of the East. List See also * Venezuela, country whose name means "Little Venice" * Venice of the North * Little Venice Little Venice is a district in West Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Of Portugal
Aveiro ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. In 2021, the population was 80,880, in an area of : it is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal (after Coimbra). Along with the neighbouring city of Ílhavo, Aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 inhabitants, making it one of the most important populated regions by density in the North Region, and primary centre of the Intermunicipal Community of Aveiro and Baixo Vouga. Administratively, the president of the municipal government is José Ribau Esteves, elected by coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre, who governs the ten civil parishes ( pt, freguesias). History The presence of human settlement in the territory of Aveiro extends to the period associated with the great dolmens of pre-history, which exist in most of the region. The Latinised toponym ‘'Averius'’ derived from the Celtic word ''aber'' (river-mouth, etym.< Brythonic *ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Of Cieszyn
Venice of Cieszyn ( pl, Cieszyńska Wenecja) is a part of the Old Town in Cieszyn, Poland. It is a section of contemporary Przykopa Street (formerly ''Nad Młynówką'') which comprises buildings from the 18th-19th century, many of them with bridges over the course of Młynówka (an artificial canal). In the past the buildings over Młynówka belonged to craftsmen: tanners, weavers, clothiers, leather-dressers and smiths, who needed constant access to water for their craft. It is the area between the intersection of Przykopa Street and Jan Łyska Avenue and the corner of Przykopa and Schodowa streets. The origin of the name It is unknown when exactly the name Venice of Cieszyn entered everyday language. The term is based on a comparison of the street in Cieszyn located near an artificial watercourse with its several bridges over the canal to numerous canals of Italian Venice. There is no official document which would refer to the matter but it is assumed that this term emerged in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale () is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth largest city in Florida. Along with Miami and Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale is one of the three principal cities that comprise the Miami metropolitan area, which had a population of 6,166,488 in 2019. Built in 1838 and first incorporated in 1911, Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. Development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed including the first at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Venice
The Marais Poitevin () or Poitevin Marsh is a large area of marshland in western France. The name means "Poitou's Marsh" or the "Marsh of the Poitou region". It is a remnant of what was the former . The western zone near the sea (about two-thirds of the area) is called the "dry marsh" (or "dried marsh"). It is used for farming and livestock breeding. The eastern zone, called the "wet marsh", is a maze of islets crisscrossed by picturesque canals, primarily now a tourist destination for boating. It is nicknamed The Green Venice (''la Venise Verte''). Overview With an area of , this is the largest marsh on France's Atlantic coast and the second largest of the country, after the Camargue in Provence. The Marais Poitevin is the most important area of angelica cultivation in France. Extending across three departments (Vendée, Deux-Sèvres, and Charente-Maritime), it is situated west of Niort, north of La Rochelle, and south of Fontenay-le-Comte. In 1979 the Marais Poitevin was dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recife
That it may shine on all ( Matthew 5:15) , image_map = Brazil Pernambuco Recife location map.svg , mapsize = 250px , map_caption = Location in the state of Pernambuco , pushpin_map = Brazil#South America , pushpin_map_caption = , pushpin_relief = yes , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = Region , subdivision_type2 = State , subdivision_name1 = Northeast , subdivision_name2 = , established_title = Founded , established_date = March 12, 1537 , established_title2 = Incorporated (as village) , established_date2 = 1709 , established_title3 = Incorporated (as city) , established_date3 = 1823 , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = João Henrique Campos ( PSB) , leader_title1 = Vice Mayor , leader_name1 = Isabella de Roldão ( PT) , area_total_km2 = 218 , ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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