Vajont (
Western Friulian: ) is a valley in the area of
Longarone
Longarone is a town and ''comune'' on the banks of the Piave in the province of Belluno, in northeast Italy. It is situated from Belluno.
4,642 people work all together in Longarone, which is 112.62% of the total population, with most actual in ...
, in the province of
Pordenone
Pordenone (; Venetian and fur, Pordenon) is the main ''comune'' of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'.
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, north-eastern
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
.
History
The municipality was founded in 1971 on the municipal territory of
Maniago
Maniago ( fur, Manià) is a town and ''comune'' located in Friuli Venezia Giulia (north-eastern Italy), in Friuli
Friuli ( fur, Friûl, sl, Furlanija, german: Friaul) is an area of Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical ...
. It was built to rehome the people evacuated from
Erto e Casso
Erto e Casso (local fur, Nert and ) is an Italian municipality in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northwest of Pordenone.
Geography
The commune consists of Ert ...
after the
Vajont Dam
The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam in northern Italy. It is one of the tallest dams in the world, with a height of . It is in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, north of Venice.
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disaster of 1963.
Language and dialect
In addition to the
Italian language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 m ...
in the territory of Vajont, the dialects that are spoken are Ertano and Cassano, that come from villages of
Erto and Casso. The
Friulian language
Friulian ( ) or Friulan (natively or ; it, friulano; de-AT, Furlanisch; sl, furlanščina) is a Romance language belonging to the Rhaeto-Romance family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, ...
, typical only of the
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
(man), it, Friulana (woman), it, Giuliano (man), it, Giuliana (woman)
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region, is understood but not spoken.
Movie
Vajont – La diga del disonore (''
Vajont – The Dam of Dishonour''), is a 2001 film directed by Renzo Martinelli. The film deals with the events that accompanied the construction of the dam and the 1963 Vajont disaster that cost the lives of about two thousand people.
External links
Cities and towns in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Populated places established in 1971
1971 establishments in Italy
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