The term Lombard refers to people or things related to
Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...
, a region in northern Italy.
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Lombards
The Lombards () or Langobards ( la, Langobardi) were a Germanic people who ruled most of the Italian Peninsula from 568 to 774.
The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written between 787 and ...
, a Germanic tribe
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Lombards of Sicily
The Lombards of Sicily ( it, Lombardi di Sicilia) are an ethnolinguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy, speaking an isolated variety of Gallo-Italic languages, the so-called Gallo-Italic of Sicily.
History
The origins of these commu ...
, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy
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Lombard League, a medieval alliance of some 30 cities in Northern Italy
Businesses
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ICICI Lombard
ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited is a general insurance company in India. It is engaged in general insurance, reinsurance, Insurance, insurance claims management and investment management.
The company has a Gross Written Premium ...
, 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 is now part of Média-Participations, alongside publishers Dargaud and Dupuis ...
(or Editions Lombard), a Belgian comic book publisher
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Lombard Bank
Lombard Bank Malta Plc is one of Malta's major banks, together with Bank of Valletta, HSBC Bank Malta and APS Bank. The Government of Malta through the National Development and Social Fund (NDSF) owns 49.1% percent of the bank. It acquired th ...
, a bank in Malta
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Lombard Direct
Lombard North Central, trading as Lombard, is a finance company specialising in asset based lending. It is one of the largest finance houses in the United Kingdom and part of the ring-fenced business of NatWest Group. The company started life h ...
, an insurance company in the United Kingdom
Places
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Lombard, Doubs
Lombard () is a Communes of France, commune in the Doubs Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Doubs department
References
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, a commune of the Doubs ''département''
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Lombard, Jura
Lombard () is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Jura department
The following is a list of the 494 communes of the Jura department of France.
The commune ...
, a commune of the Jura ''département''
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Lombard, Illinois
Lombard is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 43,165 at the 2010 census. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2019 to be 44,303.
History
Originally part of ...
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Lombard, Montana
Lombard is a ghost town in southeastern Broadwater County, Montana, Broadwater County, Montana, United States. The town was located on the east bank of the Missouri River, just north of the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek (Montana), Sixteen Mile Creek ...
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Lombard, Wisconsin
Lombard is an unincorporated community located in the town of Withee, Clark County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. ...
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Lombard (surname) Lombard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Adrian Lombard (1915–1967), British aeronautical engineer
*Alain Lombard, French conductor
*Alvin Orlando Lombard (1856–1937), American inventor of the continuous track vehicle
*An ...
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Lombard (gun) A lombard, also known as a lonbarda, wallbreaker, or quebrantamuro, was a smoothbore cannon used in the early Renaissance in Spain and Italy. Its ammunition consisted of 70 to 90 pounds (30-40 kgs) balls.
A lombard was used as an alarm to alert Chr ...
, 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
Automobiles Lombard was a French automobile manufacturer which was active from 1927 to 1929.[Lombard Steam Log Hauler
The term Lombard refers to people or things related to Lombardy, a region in northern Italy.
History and culture
* Lombards, a Germanic tribe
* Lombards of Sicily, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy
* Lombard League, a med ...]
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Lombard language
Lombard (native name: ,Classical Milanese orthography, and . , Ticinese orthography. Modern Western orthography. or ,Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronunciation: ) is a language, belonging to the Gallo-Italic family ...
, a Romance language spoken in northern Italy (Lombardy), and in some parts of Switzerland and Brazil
* Lombard, codename of the third generation
PowerBook G3
The PowerBook G3 is a series of laptop Macintosh personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from 1997 to 2001. It was the first laptop to use the PowerPC G3 (PPC740/750) series of microprocessors, and was marketed as t ...
laptop computers made by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2001
* the title character of ''
Anna Lombard
''Anna Lombard'' is a New Woman novel by Annie Sophie Cory writing as Victoria Cross. First published in 1901, it is based on the idea that it takes a New Man as well to form a perfect union of the sexes.
Literary significance and criticism
In th ...
'', a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory
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Lombard (band)
Lombard is a Polish pop-rock band founded in 1981. The bandleader is Grzegorz Stróżniak – composer, arranger, and vocalist who also plays the keyboards. For over 35 years, he has given the band its original pop-rock character, combining ex ...
, 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
Lombard College was a Universalist college located in Galesburg, Illinois.
History
Lombard College was founded in 1853 by the Universalist Church as the Illinois Liberal Institute. In 1855, however, a major fire damaged much of the college, p ...
, a now defunct institution of higher education in Galesburg, Illinois
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Lombard (grape)
Trollinger, Schiava, or Vernatsch, is a red German/Italian wine grape variety that was likely first originally cultivated in the wine regions of South Tyrol and Trentino, but today is almost exclusively cultivated on steep, sunny locations in t ...
, another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger
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Enfariné noir
Enfariné noir (or Gouais noir) is a red French wine grape variety that is grown predominantly in the Jura wine region of eastern France. Despite being known under the synonym ''Gouais noir'' in the Aisne, Aube, Marne, Meuse and Seine-et-Marne d ...
, French wine grape also known as Lombard
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''Lombard'' (magazine), an Italian business magazine
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Lombard banking
Lombard banking was a mount of piety style of pawn shop in the Middle Ages, a type of banking that originated in prosperous Northern Italy, in a region called Lombardy during the Middle Ages. The term was sometimes used in a derogatory sense, and ...
, a form of medieval banking
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Lombard credit
Lombard credit is the granting of credit to banks against pledged items, mostly in the form of securities or life insurance policies. The pledged items must be readily marketable; in particular, the securities 'eligible for collateral' which are re ...
, a form of lending used by central banks
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Lombard effect
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, 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
The Lombard rhythm or Scotch snap is a syncopated musical rhythm in which a short, accented note is followed by a longer one. This reverses the pattern normally associated with dotted notes or ''notes inégales'', in which the longer value prece ...
, a musical rhythm, especially used in Baroque music
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Lombardo
Lombardo is an Italian demonym ("from Lombardy") and surname, most commonly found in Sicily where it is the third most common family name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
*Andrea Lombardo (born 1987), Canadian football (soccer) playe ...
, a family name
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Lombardi (disambiguation)
Lombardi may refer to:
* Lombardi (surname)
* ''Lombardi'' (play), a Broadway play
* ''Lombardi'' (film), a 2010 television documentary
* I lombardi alla Prima Crociata, an opera by Verdi
* Lombardi Software was an enterprise software company ...
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