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The Piedmont's area is approximately 80,000 square miles (210,000 km 2). [3] The French word Piedmont (modern spelling Piémont) comes from the Italian Piemonte, from Latin pedemontium, meaning "foothill" or, literally, "at the foot of the mountains"; [1] it is the name of the northwestern Italian region abutting the Alps.
Piedmont has many small and picturesque villages, 20 of them have been selected by I Borghi più belli d'Italia (English: The most beautiful Villages of Italy), [24] a non-profit private association of small Italian towns of strong historical and artistic interest, [25] that was founded on the initiative of the Tourism Council of the National ...
Foothills or piedmont are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area. They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills and the adjacent topographically higher mountains , hills, and uplands. [ 1 ]
Piedmont (United States), a plateau between the Atlantic Plain and Appalachian Mountains; Piedmont (ecoregion), an area designated by the U.S. EPA and CEC; Central North Carolina, the Piedmont region of North Carolina; Colorado Piedmont, a valley in the foothills of the Front Range; Piedmont Crescent, an urban area in North Carolina
Therefore, the Piedmont Mountains in the Southeast occur less frequently (in a larger area) and are more prominent. Once the Piedmont enters Pennsylvania it comes into contact with a total of four physiographic provinces as the Piedmont itself begins to terminate. Here, the regional territories are less defined and the hills seem to scatter.
Piedmontese (English: / ˌ p iː d m ɒ n ˈ t iː z / PEED-mon-TEEZ; autonym: piemontèis [pjemʊŋˈtɛjz] or lenga piemontèisa; Italian: piemontese) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, a region of Northwest Italy.
"On the Late Massacre in Piedmont" is a sonnet by the English poet John Milton inspired by the Easter massacre of Waldensians in Piedmont by the troops of Charles ...
The Geography of Piedmont is that of a territory predominantly mountainous, 43.3%, but with extensive areas of hills which represent 30.3% of the territory, and of plains (26.4%). To the north and to the west Piedmont is surrounded by the Alps , to the south by the Apennines , and to the east by the Po plain .