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Piedmont
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piedmont
English
Etymology
en it Piemonte mountain foot, from en la-med Pedemontium, la Pedemontis, from en la ad la pedem la montium.
Pronunciation
en /ˈpiːdmɒnt/
en En-us-Piedmont.ogg US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Piedmont.wav Southern England
en piedmont
Proper noun
en Q1216en adr in the north of c/Italy.
en Q426977en geographic region/and/plateau of the eastern c/US between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.
en Q79213en small city co/Calhoun County,Cherokee County s/Alabama c/USA.
en Q570301en city co/Alameda County s/California c/USA.
en Q963250en small city co/Wayne County s/Missouri c/USA.
en Q29689en city co/Canadian County,Kingfisher County s/Oklahoma c/USA.
en Q63883en CDP co/Anderson County,Greenville County s/South Carolina c/USA.
en Q4257440en small city co/Meade County s/South Dakota c/USA.
en Q22713en small town co/Mineral County s/West Virginia c/USA.
en Q3382642en small municipality rcomun:Suf/Les Pays-d'en-Haut p/Quebec c/Canada.
en locality shire:Pref/Baw Baw south eastern s/Victoria c/Australia.
(historiography) Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento.
en Dakin The Unification of Greece, 1770–1923 1972 9780510263119 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.
en White The Territorial Component of Nationalism in Southeastern Europe: The Cases of the Hungarians, Romanians, and Serbs 1994 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.
en Magocsi The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont 2002 20 9780802047380 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
en administrative region of Italy Alessandria Asti Biella Cuneo Novara Turin Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Vercelli
Derived terms
en Piedmontese piedmontite Piedmontization Piedmontize Piedmont blues
Translations
region of Italy
Arabic: ar بييمونتي
Armenian: hy Պիեմոնտ
Azerbaijani: az Pyemont
Bulgarian: bg Пиемо́нт m
Catalan: ca Piemont m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 皮埃蒙特 Pí'āiméngtè
Czech: cs Piemont
Danish: da Piemonte
Dutch: nl Piëmont n
Emilian: egl Piemånt m
Finnish: fi Piemonte
Franco-Provençal: frp Piemont
French: fr Piémont m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Piëmont n
Friulian: fur Piemont
Galician: gl Piemonte
Georgian: ka პიემონტი
German: de Piemont n
Greek: el Πεδεμόντιο n
Hebrew: he פִּיֶימוֹנְטֶה
Hungarian: hu Piemont
Icelandic: is Fjallaland m
Ido: io Piemont
Irish: ga Píodmant
Italian: it Piemonte m
Japanese: ja ピエモンテ Piemonte
Korean: ko 피에몬테 주
Ladin: lld
Latin: la Pedemontium n
Latvian: lv Pjemonta
Ligurian: lij Piemonte
Lithuanian: lt Pjemontas
Lombard: lmo Piemont m
Neapolitan: nap Piemunte
Occitan: oc Piemont m
Persian: fa پیدمونت Piedmōnt
Piedmontese: pms Piemont m
Polish: pl Piemont m
Portuguese: pt Piemonte m
Romagnol: rgn
Romanian: ro Piemont n
Romansh: rm Piemont
Russian: ru Пьемо́нт m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Пијѐмонт m
Latin: sh Pijèmont m
Spanish: es Piamonte m
Swedish: sv Piemonte
Thai: th ปีเยมอนเต
Turkish: tr Piyemonte
Ukrainian: uk П'ємо́нт m
Venetan: vec Piemonte m
Walloon: wa Pîmont m
See also
Further reading
Piedmont (United States)
en exonyms
French
Etymology
The name of the municipality is derived from fr piémont foothill.
Pronunciation
Pied-mont
fr Pied mont
fr ɔ̃ 2
fr piémont
Proper noun
m
fr municipality rcm/Les Pays-d'en-Haut r/Laurentides p/Quebec c/Canada
Derived terms
fr piedmontais Piedmontais Piedmontaise