Piedmont
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See also: piedmont
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Italian Piemonte (“mountain foot”), from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, Pedemontis, from Latin ad pedem montium.
Pronunciation
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[edit]Piedmont
- An administrative region in the north of Italy.
- A geographic region and plateau of the eastern United States, between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
- A small city in Calhoun County and Cherokee County, Alabama, United States.
- A city in Alameda County, California, United States.
- A small city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States.
- A city in Canadian County and Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States.
- A census-designated place in Anderson County and Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.
- A small city in Meade County, South Dakota, United States.
- A small town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
- A small municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- (historiography) Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
- 1972, Dakin, The Unification of Greece, 1770–1923, →ISBN, page 262:
- As it was, Greece had no 'Piedmont' with which to begin her Unification – no Piedmont to make alliances with other states, no Piedmontese bureaucracy and diplomatic service, no well-equipped and well-supplied regular army.
- 1994, White, The Territorial Component of Nationalism in Southeastern Europe: The Cases of the Hungarians, Romanians, and Serbs, page 273:
- The rise of an independent Bulgarian state challenged the view of many Serbs that they were the "Piedmont" of the Balkans, the ones to unify all Balkan Slavs.
- 2002, Magocsi, The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont, →ISBN, page 20:
- The more influental National Democratic party was founded in 1899, and it hoped to work through existing channels in Austria to create a separate Ukrainian province of eastern Galicia, which someday might become the Piedmont of an independent Ukrainian state on both sides of the Austro-Russian border.
Meronyms
[edit]administrative region of Italy
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]region of Italy
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See also
[edit]regions of Italyedit
Further reading
[edit]Piedmont on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Piedmont (United States) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The name of the municipality is derived from piémont (“foothill”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Piedmont m
- a municipality of Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada
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