• Thumbnail for Po Valley
    The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain (Italian: Pianura Padana [pjaˈnuːra paˈdaːna], or Val Padana) is a major geographical feature...
    35 KB (4,339 words) - 00:02, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Po (river)
    The Po Valley was the territory of Roman Cisalpine Gaul, divided into Cispadane Gaul (south of the Po) and Transpadane Gaul (north of the Po). The Po has...
    38 KB (4,459 words) - 14:15, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grana Padano
    Grana Padano is a cheese originating in the Po Valley in northern Italy. It is similar to Parmesan but with less strict regulations governing its production...
    10 KB (1,009 words) - 16:46, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Etruscan civilization
    Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto, and western...
    108 KB (11,982 words) - 13:45, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hannibal
    alliance between Carthage and the Celts of the Po Valley in Northern Italy. When Hannibal arrived in the Po Valley, roughly 10,000 Celtic tribesmen joined his...
    99 KB (12,697 words) - 00:12, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lombardy
    followed by hills that smooth the transition from the mountain to the Po Valley, the main peaks of which are the Grigna Group (2,410 m (7,910 ft)), Resegone...
    204 KB (19,367 words) - 02:17, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geography of Italy
    crossed by the Apennines, the southern side of Alps, the large plain of the Po Valley and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia. Italy is part of the Northern...
    42 KB (5,118 words) - 17:52, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern Italy
    term Padania began to be sometimes used as a geographical synonym of the Po Valley. The term appeared sparingly until the early 1990s, when Lega Nord, then...
    60 KB (6,141 words) - 14:37, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apennine Mountains
    River valley to about La Spezia (La Cisa pass) below the upper Magra River valley. The range follows the Gulf of Genoa separating it from the upper Po Valley...
    58 KB (6,786 words) - 11:33, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 90th Light Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
    1943 to April 1945 when the division was listed as "destroyed" in the Po River valley. On 26 June 1941, the OKH ordered the creation of a Division HQ staff...
    31 KB (2,718 words) - 06:42, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valley
    Numedalen (Buskerud, Norway) Østerdalen (Hedmark, Norway) Po Valley, (Italy) Rhone Valley from the Matterhorn to Grenoble and Lyon (France) Romsdalen...
    30 KB (3,341 words) - 03:29, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hannibal's crossing of the Alps
    his soldiers the Po Valley and the plains near it, and reminded them they had been assured of Gallic friendship and aid. The Po Valley is not visible from...
    64 KB (8,847 words) - 08:14, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valle Po
    29615 The Valle Po (literally "Po valley") is a valley of the Cottian Alps in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont, Northern Italy. The valley gives rise to...
    2 KB (136 words) - 13:28, 30 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Climate of Italy
    humid subtropical to humid continental and oceanic. The climate of the Po valley geographical region is mostly humid subtropical, with cool winters and...
    46 KB (4,281 words) - 11:22, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arborio rice
    Italian short-grain rice. It is named after the town of Arborio, in the Po Valley, which is situated in the region of Piedmont in Italy. When cooked, the...
    2 KB (171 words) - 11:15, 10 June 2024
  • giant panda who is improbably chosen as the champion of the Valley of Peace in the first film. Po is the prophesied Dragon Warrior or Dragon Master, as well...
    23 KB (3,023 words) - 18:02, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alluvial plain
    Romania Iskar (river) valleys in Bulgaria Mesaoria in Cyprus Multiple sites in Switzerland Palakaria Valley in Bulgaria Po Valley in Italy Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt...
    6 KB (558 words) - 04:48, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1st Armored Division (United States)
    combat of the Italian campaign. The division continued in combat to the Po Valley until the German forces in Italy surrendered on 2 May 1945. In June, the...
    91 KB (9,873 words) - 01:08, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Padania
    derived from the name of the Po River (Latin Padus), whose basin includes much of the region, centered on the Po Valley (Pianura Padana), the major plain...
    26 KB (2,123 words) - 20:48, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 10th Mountain Division
    which allowed it to advance into the Po Valley area. It captured Mongiorgio on 20 April and entered the valley, seizing the strategic points Pradalbino...
    109 KB (10,079 words) - 18:33, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italy
    The longest is the Po, which flows from the Alps on the western border, and crosses the Padan plain to the Adriatic. The Po Valley is the largest plain...
    302 KB (26,919 words) - 06:09, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Celts
    being traded up the Rhône valley. But trade became disrupted soon after 500 BC and re-oriented over the Alps to the Po valley in the Italian peninsula...
    149 KB (16,668 words) - 16:48, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adriatic Sea
    Otranto (where it connects to the Ionian Sea) to the northwest and the Po Valley. The countries with coasts on the Adriatic are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina...
    186 KB (18,424 words) - 15:11, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Southern Europe
    Sahara blows over Italy, going up to the interior of the Alpine arc (Po Valley). The Alps prevent the Sirocco from spreading to the rest of Europe. And...
    40 KB (4,101 words) - 22:49, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rhaetian people
    as Etruscan people who were displaced from the Po valley by the Gauls and took refuge in the valleys of the Alps. But it is likely that they were predominantly...
    22 KB (2,654 words) - 22:32, 13 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spring 1945 offensive in Italy
    formidable Gothic Line defenses, the Allies failed to break into the Po Valley before the winter weather made further attempts impossible. The Allied...
    30 KB (3,291 words) - 16:04, 22 November 2024
  • god Śuri as god of the underworld; this name was primarily used in the Po Valley, as described by Servius, but a dedication to the god manθ from the Archaic...
    5 KB (525 words) - 20:48, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Insubria
    ground for Mago's operations. Despite the victorious campaigns in the Po valley before the outbreak of the Second Punic war and the extensive colonization...
    15 KB (2,099 words) - 14:59, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for War of the First Coalition
    succeeded against Sardinia and Austria in northern Italy (1796–1797) near the Po Valley, culminating in the Peace of Leoben and the Treaty of Campo Formio (October...
    35 KB (2,827 words) - 07:56, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pavia
    nature reserve) that they show us the original state of the nature of the Po valley before the arrival of the Romans, before human settlement. In Roman times...
    119 KB (13,940 words) - 10:25, 11 November 2024