Umbria, the Glossary
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140 relations: Alcantara (material), Amelia, Umbria, Ancient Rome, Anthony the Great, Apennine Mountains, Assisi, Attigliano, Augustus, Avignon, Bastia Umbra, Battle of Lake Trasimene, Battle of Sentinum, Battle of Taginae, Benedictines, Bettona, Bronze Age, Byzantine Empire, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cascata delle Marmore, Cashmere wool, Castiglione del Lago, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Central Italy, Cesare Borgia, Charlemagne, Chiascio, Città di Castello, Clitunno, Comune, Cospaia, Cyprus, Democratic Party (Italy), Donatella Tesei, Duchy of Spoleto, Duchy of the Pentapolis, Earth pigment, Etruscan civilization, Exarchate of Ravenna, Fault (geology), Festival dei Due Mondi, First French Empire, Foligno, Francis of Assisi, French Revolution, Gauls, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Giostra della Quintana, Giosuè Carducci, Gothic Line, ... Expand index (90 more) »
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Alcantara (material)
Alcantara is the brand name of a synthetic textile with a soft, suede-like microfibre pile, noted for its durability.
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Amelia, Umbria
Amelia is a town and comune located in central Italy which is part of the province of Terni.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Anthony the Great
Anthony the Great (Ἀντώνιος Antṓnios; القديس أنطونيوس الكبير; Antonius;; – 17 January 356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint.
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Apennine Mountains
The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun.
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Assisi
Assisi (also,; from Asisium; Central Italian: Ascesi) is a town and comune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.
Attigliano
Attigliano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 70 km south of Perugia and about 30 km west of Terni.
Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Avignon
Avignon (Provençal or Avignoun,; Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.
Bastia Umbra
Bastia Umbra is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 15 km southeast of Perugia.
Battle of Lake Trasimene
The Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought when a Carthaginian force under Hannibal Barca ambushed a Roman army commanded by Gaius Flaminius on 21 June 217 BC, during the Second Punic War.
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Battle of Sentinum
The Battle of Sentinum was the decisive battle of the Third Samnite War, fought in 295 BC near Sentinum (next to the modern town of Sassoferrato, in the Marches, region of Italy), in which the Romans overcame a formidable coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, and Umbrians and Senone Gauls.
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Battle of Taginae
At the Battle of Taginae (also known as the Battle of Busta Gallorum) in June/July 552, the forces of the Byzantine Empire under Narses broke the power of the Ostrogoths in Italy, and paved the way for the temporary Byzantine reconquest of the Italian Peninsula.
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Benedictines
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
Bettona
Bettona (Latin: Vettona) is an ancient town and comune of Italy, in the province of Perugia in central Umbria at the northern edge of the Colli Martani range.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis) is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church.
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Cascata delle Marmore
The Cascata delle Marmore or Marmore Falls is a tiered, man-made waterfall in Italy, created by the Romans in 271BC.
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Cashmere wool
Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat.
Castiglione del Lago
Castiglione del Lago is a town in the province of Perugia of Umbria (central Italy), on the southwest corner of Lake Trasimeno.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Central Italy
Central Italy (Italia centrale or Centro Italia) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first-level NUTS region, and a European Parliament constituency.
Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia (Cèsar Borja; César Borja; 13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was an Italian cardinal and condottiero (mercenary leader), an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese House of Borgia.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Chiascio
The Chiascio is a river of Umbria, central Italy.
Città di Castello
Città di Castello; "Castle Town") is a city and comune in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of Perugia and south of Cesena on the motorway SS 3 bis.
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Clitunno
The Clitunno, in Antiquity the Clitumnus, is a river in Umbria, Italy.
Comune
A comune (comuni) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.
Cospaia
Cospaia is an Italian hamlet (frazione) of the comune of San Giustino in the Province of Perugia, Umbria.
Cyprus
Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Democratic Party (Italy)
The Democratic Party (Partito Democratico., PD) is a social democratic political party in Italy.
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Donatella Tesei
Donatella Tesei (born 17 June 1958) is an Italian politician and lawyer, currently President of the Umbria region.
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Duchy of Spoleto
The Duchy of Spoleto was a Lombard territory founded about 570 in central Italy by the Lombard dux Faroald.
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Duchy of the Pentapolis
In the Byzantine Empire, the Duchy of the Pentapolis was a duchy (Latin: ducatus), a territory ruled by a duke (dux) appointed by and under the Exarch of Ravenna.
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Earth pigment
Earth pigments are naturally occurring minerals that have been used since prehistoric times as pigments.
Etruscan civilization
The Etruscan civilization was an ancient civilization created by the Etruscans, a people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states.
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Exarchate of Ravenna
The Exarchate of Ravenna (Exarchatus Ravennatis; Εξαρχάτον τής Ραβέννας), also known as the Exarchate of Italy, was an administrative district of the Byzantine Empire comprising, between the 6th and 8th centuries, the territories under the jurisdiction of the exarch of Italy (exarchus Italiae) resident in Ravenna.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements.
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Festival dei Due Mondi
The Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) is an annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy, since its founding by composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1958.
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First French Empire
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Foligno
Foligno (Southern Umbrian: Fuligno) is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clitunno river system.
Francis of Assisi
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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Gauls
The Gauls (Galli; Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD).
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Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz
Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz more commonly Gil de Albornoz (Egidio Álvarez de Albornoz y Luna; – 23 August 1367), was a Spanish curial cardinal, archbishop of Toledo from 13 May 1338 to 17 December 1350.
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Giostra della Quintana
The Giostra della Quintana was a historical jousting tournament in Foligno, central Italy.
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Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher.
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Gothic Line
The Gothic Line (Gotenstellung; Linea Gotica) was a German and Italian defensive line of the Italian Campaign of World War II.
Gothic War (535–554)
The Gothic War between the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I and the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy took place from 535 to 554 in the Italian Peninsula, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Sicily, and Corsica.
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Gualdo Tadino
Gualdo Tadino (Latin: Tadinum) is an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Monte Penna, a mountain of the Apennines.
Gubbio
Gubbio is an Italian town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria).
Guelphs and Ghibellines
The Guelphs and Ghibellines (guelfi e ghibellini) were factions supporting respectively the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages.
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Hannibal
Hannibal (translit; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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I Borghi più belli d'Italia
italics is a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest, that was founded in March 2001 on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National Association of Italian Municipalities, with the aim of preserving and maintaining villages of quality heritage.
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Iguvine Tablets
The Iguvine Tablets, also known as the Eugubian Tablets or Eugubine Tables, are a series of seven bronze tablets from ancient Iguvium (modern Gubbio), Italy, written in the ancient Italic language Umbrian.
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International Business Times
The International Business Times is an American online newspaper that publishes five national editions in four languages.
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Iron oxide
Iron oxides are chemical compounds composed of iron and oxygen.
ISO 3166
ISO 3166 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states).
Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy.
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Italian National Institute of Statistics
The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy.
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Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula (Italian: penisola italica or penisola italiana), also known as the Italic Peninsula, Apennine Peninsula or Italian Boot, is a peninsula extending from the southern Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south, which comprises much of the country of Italy and the enclaved microstates of San Marino and Vatican City.
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Italic languages
The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.
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Italic peoples
The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946.
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Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)
The Kingdom of Sardinia is a term used to denote the Savoyard state from 1720 until 1861, which united the island of Sardinia with the mainland possessions of the House of Savoy.
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Lake Trasimeno
Lake Trasimeno (also; Lago Trasimeno; Trasumennus; Tarśmina), also referred to as Trasimene or Thrasimene in English, is a lake in the province of Perugia, in the Umbria region of Italy on the border with Tuscany.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lazio
Lazio or Latium (from the original Latin name) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy. Umbria and Lazio are regions of Italy.
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Lega Nord
Lega Nord (LN; Northern League), whose complete name is italic (Northern League for the Independence of Padania), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy.
List of Italian regions by Human Development Index
This is a list of 19 regions of Italy and the 2 autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino by Human Development Index as of 2022.
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List of Roman civil wars and revolts
This list of Roman civil wars and revolts includes civil wars and organized civil disorder, revolts, and rebellions in ancient Rome (Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic, and Roman Empire) until the fall of the Western Roman Empire (753 BC – AD 476).
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Lombards
The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.
Manganese oxide
Manganese oxide is any of a variety of manganese oxides and hydroxides.
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Marche
Marche, in English sometimes referred to as the Marches, is one of the twenty regions of Italy. Umbria and Marche are regions of Italy.
Mark Antony
Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire.
Medieval commune
Medieval communes in the European Middle Ages had sworn allegiances of mutual defense (both physical defense and of traditional freedoms) among the citizens of a town or city.
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Monte Vettore
Monte Vettore (from Latin Vector, "carrier", "leader") is a mountain of the Umbro-marchigiano Apennine Mountains in Italy.
Montefalco
Montefalco is a historic small hill town in Umbria, Italy, with a population of 5,581 in August 2017.
Narni
Narni (Narnia) is an ancient hilltown and comune (municipality) of Umbria, in central Italy, with 19,252 inhabitants (2017).
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Nera (Tiber)
The Nera is a long river that flows almost entirely in Umbria, Italy.
Nocera Umbra
Nocera Umbra is a town and comune in the province of Perugia, Italy, 15 kilometers north of Foligno, at an altitude of 520 m above sea-level.
Norcia
Norcia, traditionally known in English by its Latin name of Nursia, is a town and comune in the province of Perugia (Italy) in southeastern Umbria.
October 2016 Central Italy earthquakes
A series of major earthquakes struck Central Italy between the Marche and Umbria regions in October 2016.
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Olive oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.
Orvieto
Orvieto is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff.
Oscan language
Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy.
Osco-Umbrian languages
The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern Italy by the Osco-Umbrians before being replaced by Latin, as the power of Ancient Rome expanded.
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Ostrogoths
The Ostrogoths (Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people.
Papal States
The Papal States (Stato Pontificio), officially the State of the Church (Stato della Chiesa; Status Ecclesiasticus), were a conglomeration of territories on the Apennine Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the Pope from 756 to 1870.
Perugia
Perugia (Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber.
Perusia
The ancient Perusia, now Perugia, first appears in history as one of the 12 confederate cities of Etruria.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Pope Paul III
Pope Paul III (Paulus III; Paolo III; 29 February 1468 – 10 November 1549), born Alessandro Farnese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death, in November 1549.
Proto-Villanovan culture
The Proto-Villanovan culture was a late Bronze Age culture that appeared in Italy in the first half of the 12th century BC and lasted until the 10th century BC, part of the central European Urnfield culture system (1300-750 BCE).
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Province of Perugia
The province of Perugia (provincia di Perugia) is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area and population of the region.
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Province of Rieti
The province of Rieti (provincia di Rieti) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy.
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Province of Terni
The province of Terni (provincia di Terni) is the smaller of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising one-third of both the area and population of the region.
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Provinces of Italy
The provinces of Italy (province d'Italia) are the second-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, on an intermediate level between a municipality (comune) and a region (regione).
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Ravenna
Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.
Regio VI Umbria
Regio VI Umbria (also named Regio VI Umbria et Ager Gallicus) is the name for one of the 11 administrative regions into which the emperor Augustus divided Italy.
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Regions of Italy
The regions of Italy (regioni d'Italia) are the first-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic, constituting its second NUTS administrative level.
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Roman army
The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) was the armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC) to the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD), and its medieval continuation, the Eastern Roman Empire.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman Republic (1798–1799)
The Roman Republic was a sister republic of the First French Republic.
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Sabines
The Sabines (Sabini; Sabini—all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome.
Saint George
Saint George (Geṓrgios;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, Geōrgius, გიორგი, Ge'orgiyos, Mar Giwargis, translit died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity.
Saint Ubaldo Day
Saint Ubaldo Day or Festa dei Ceri is an event celebrated on 15 May in the Italian town of Gubbio.
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Samnite Wars
The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars (343–341 BC, 326–304 BC, and 298–290 BC) were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome and north of the Lucanian tribe.
Samnium
Samnium (Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of Southern Italy anciently inhabited by the Samnites. Umbria and Samnium are regions of Italy.
Second Punic War
The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) was the second of three wars fought between Carthage and Rome, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the 3rd century BC.
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Signoria
A signoria was the governing authority in many of the Italian city-states during the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
Spello
Spello (in Antiquity: Hispellum) is an ancient town and comune (township) of Italy, in the province of Perugia in eastern-central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Monte Subasio.
Spoleto
Spoleto (also,,; Spoletum) is an ancient city in the Italian province of Perugia in east-central Umbria on a foothill of the Apennines.
Terni
Terni (Interamna (Nahars)) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria, in Central Italy.
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Terramare culture
Terramare, terramara, or terremare is a technology complex mainly of the central Po valley, in Emilia, Northern Italy, dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Age c. 1700–1150 BC.
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Tiber
The Tiber (Tevere; Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the River Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino.
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Tiber Valley
The Tiber Valley (Italian: Valle del Tevere) is the largest geographical part of the of the Tiber river included in the Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, and the Lazio regions; it is characterized by river terraces and floodplain areas that extend from the Apennine belt up to the delta of the Tiber river in the of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Todi
Todi (Tuder in antiquity) is a town and comune (municipality) of the province of Perugia (region of Umbria) in central Italy.
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Topino
The Topino is a river in Umbria, central Italy.
Torgiano
Torgiano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria, located about 10 km southeast of Perugia.
Trasimène
Trasimène was a department of the First French Empire from 1809 to 1814 in present-day Italy.
Trinci
The Trinci were a noble family from central Italy, who were lords of Foligno, in Umbria, from 1305 to 1439.
Tuber melanosporum
Tuber melanosporum, called the black truffle, Périgord truffle or French black truffle, is a species of truffle native to Southern Europe.
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Tuscany
Italian: toscano | citizenship_it. Umbria and Tuscany are regions of Italy.
Ubald
Ubald of Gubbio (Ubaldo; Ubaldus; Ubalde; ca. 1084–1160) was a medieval bishop of Gubbio, in Umbria, today venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Umber
Umber is a natural earth pigment consisting of iron oxide and manganese oxide; it has a brownish color that can vary among shades of yellow, red, and green.
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Umbri
The Umbri were an Italic people of ancient Italy.
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Umbrian language
Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria.
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Unification of Italy
The unification of Italy (Unità d'Italia), also known as the Risorgimento, was the 19th century political and social movement that in 1861 resulted in the consolidation of various states of the Italian Peninsula and its outlying isles into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
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Via Flaminia
The Via Flaminia was an ancient Roman road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to Ariminum (Rimini) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and due to the ruggedness of the mountains was the major option the Romans had for travel between Etruria, Latium, Campania, and the Po Valley.
Victor Emmanuel II
Victor Emmanuel II (Vittorio Emanuele II; full name: Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso di Savoia; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878) was King of Sardinia (also known as Piedmont-Sardinia) from 23 March 1849 until 17 March 1861, when he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of an independent, united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.
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Vitelli family
The House of Vitelli, among other families so named, were a prominent noble family of Umbria, rulers of Città di Castello and lesser rocche.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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1997 Umbria and Marche earthquake
The 1997 Umbria and Marche earthquake occurred in the regions of Umbria and Marche, central Italy on the morning of 26 September.
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2019 Umbrian regional election
The 2019 Umbrian regional election took place on 27 October 2019.
See Umbria and 2019 Umbrian regional election
See also
Regions of Italy
- Abruzzo
- Aosta Valley
- Apulia
- Basilicata
- Calabria
- Campania
- Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces
- Economy of Abruzzo
- Emilia-Romagna
- Flags of regions of Italy
- Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- ISO 3166-2:IT
- Lazio
- Liguria
- List of Italian regions by GDP
- List of Italian regions by GRDP per capita
- List of current presidents of regions of Italy
- Lombardy
- Lucania
- Marche
- Meridionalism
- Molise
- Montefeltro
- Northern Italy
- Piedmont
- Regions of Italy
- Samnium
- Sicily
- Southern Italy
- Tuscany
- Umbria
- Upper Mantua
- Veneto
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbria
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