The term Lombard refers to people or things related to

Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...

, a region in northern Italy.

History and culture

Lombards The Lombards () or Longobards () were a Germanic peoples, Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774. The medieval Lombard historian Paul the Deacon wrote in the ''History of the Lombards'' (written betwee ...

, a Germanic tribe *

Lombardic language Lombardic or Langobardic () is an extinct West Germanic language that was spoken by the Lombards (), the Germanic people who settled in present-day Italy in the sixth century and established the Kingdom of the Lombards. It was already declining ...

, the Germanic language spoken by the Lombards *

Lombards of Sicily The Lombards of Sicily () 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 communities goes back to the ...

, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy *

Lombard League The Lombard League (; ) was an alliance of cities formed in 1167, and supported by the popes, to counter the attempts by the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperors to establish direct royal administrative control over the cities of the Kingdom of It ...

, a medieval alliance of some 30 cities in Northern Italy *

Lombard language The Lombard language (,Classical Milanese orthography, and . ,Ticino, Ticinese orthography. Modern Western orthography and Classical Cremish Orthography. or ,Eastern Lombard, Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronuncia ...

, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland **

Old Lombard Old Lombard (Old ) is an Old Gallo-Italic dialect and the earliest form of Lombard. Spoken in the 13th and 14th centuries within the Late Middle Ages, several folks such as the Milanese writers Bonvesin da la Riva and Pietro da Barsegapé in ...

, the form of the Lombard language from the 13th and 14th centuries * Lombardic capitals, a decorative lettering style originally used in medieval manuscripts

Businesses

ICICI Lombard ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited is an Indian general insurance company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. ICICI is engaged with general insurance, reinsurance, insurance claims management and investment management. The co ...

, an insurance company in India *

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 became part of Média-Participations since 1986, alongside publishers Darg ...

(or Editions Lombard), a Belgian comic book publisher *

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% of the bank. It acquired these shar ...

, a bank in Malta *

Lombard North Central 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 ...

, a finance house in the United Kingdom

Places

;France *

Lombard, Doubs Lombard () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Population See also * Communes of the Doubs department The following is a list of the 563 communes of the Doubs department of Fra ...

, a commune of the Doubs ''département'' * Lombard, Jura, a commune of the Jura ''département'' ;United States *

Lombard, Illinois Lombard is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 44,476 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Lombard was originally named "Babcock's Grove", after the Babcock brothers ...

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 Cre ...

* Lombard, Wisconsin

Other uses

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 * ...

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 balls. A lombard was used as an alarm to alert Christopher Columbus on the f ...

, an early cannon *

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 * L ...

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 * Lombardic language, the Germanic language spoken by the Lombards * Lombards of Sicily, a linguisti ...

* Lombard, codename of the third generation

PowerBook G3 The PowerBook G3 is a series of laptop Macintosh personal computers that was 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 ma ...

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 ...

'', a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory *

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 * "Lombard" (''Miami Vice''), an episode from the ''Miami Vice'' television series *

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 *

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 **

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 * ''Lombard'' (magazine), an Italian business magazine