piedmont

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
Region in the north of Italy
Any region of foothills of a mountain range
Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range
Italian Piemonte Autonomous region (pop., 2001 prelim.: 4,166,442), northwestern Italy. With its capital at Turin, Piedmont borders France and Switzerland; it has an area of 9,807 sq mi (25,399 sq km). In Roman times its passes connected Italy with the transalpine provinces of Gaul. In the Middle Ages the house of Savoy was the region's most important power. It was a centre during the 19th-century Risorgimento that united Italy. Victor Emmanuel II, originally king of Piedmont and Sardinia, became modern Italy's first king in 1861. Surrounded by mountains, Piedmont is centred on the Po River valley, which contains some of Italy's best farmland, producing wheat, rice, and wines. Its hydroelectric plants supply energy for much of northern Italy. Geographic region, eastern U.S. Lying between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic coastal plain, it is about 600 mi (950 km) long and stretches between the Hudson River and central Alabama. A relatively low, rolling plateau crossed by many rivers, it is a fertile agricultural region
{i} region in northwestern Italy; plateau region between New York and Alabama east of the Appalachian Mountains
An area of shallow, rolling hills formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range
the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain
Located or formed at the base of a mountain range; an example would be a Piedmont terrace
{i} area of flatlands located at the foothills of a mountain chain
Lying or formed at the base of mountains; in the United States, an area in the southern states at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains
the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
A major wine-producing region of northwestern Italy It is famous for quality Barolo and Barbaresco red wines and white Moscato d'Asti wines
A physiographic province located or formed at the base of a mountain range
piedmont glacier
a type of glaciation characteristic of Alaska; large valley glaciers meet to form an almost stagnant sheet of ice
piedmont

    الواصلة

    Pied·mont

    التركية النطق

    pidmänt

    النطق

    /ˈpēdˌmänt/ /ˈpiːdˌmɑːnt/
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