Lombard
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The term Lombard refers to people or things related to Lombardy, a region in northern Italy.
History and culture
[edit]- Lombards, a Germanic tribe
- Lombards of Sicily, a linguistic minority living in Sicily, southern Italy
- Lombard League, a medieval alliance of some 30 cities in Northern Italy
- Lombard language, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland
- Old Lombard, the form of the Lombard language from the 13th and 14th centuries
Businesses
[edit]- ICICI Lombard, an insurance company in India
- Le Lombard (or Editions Lombard), a Belgian comic book publisher
- Lombard Bank, a bank in Malta
- Lombard North Central, a finance house in the United Kingdom
Places
[edit]- France
- Lombard, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département
- Lombard, Jura, a commune of the Jura département
- United States
Other uses
[edit]- Lombard (surname)
- Lombard (gun), an early cannon
- Lombard Street (disambiguation)
- Automobiles Lombard, a French automobile manufacturer in the 1920s
- Lombard Steam Log Hauler
- Lombard language, a Romance language spoken in northern Italy (Lombardy), and in some parts of Switzerland and Brazil
- Lombard, codename of the third generation PowerBook G3 laptop computers made by Apple Computer from 1999 to 2001
- the title character of Anna Lombard, a 1901 novel by Annie Sophie Cory
- Lombard (band), a Polish rock band
- "Lombard" (Miami Vice), an episode from the Miami Vice television series
- Lombard College, a now defunct institution of higher education in Galesburg, Illinois
- Lombard (grape), another name for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger
- Enfariné noir, French wine grape also known as Lombard
- Lombard (magazine), an Italian business magazine
See also
[edit]- Lombard banking, a form of medieval banking
- Lombard credit, a form of lending used by central banks
- Lombard effect, a phenomenon in which a speaker or singer involuntarily raises his or her vocal intensity in the presence of high levels of sound
- Lombard rhythm, a musical rhythm, especially used in Baroque music
- Lombardo, a family name
- Lombardi (disambiguation)